alternatives for /usr/bin/vim

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:43:09PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> PS I frankly do not remember what was the idea implemented in old vim 7
>    snapshots to get rid of the conflicts, but I'm willing to implement
>    the above one directly in the vim 6.4 repo if noone objects.

Well, having some spare time I implemented the alternatives solution, of
course I haven't committed anything before discussing it here, even
because the commit is a bit invasive and touches/add/remove several
files in debian/.

Some consequences of my changes:
- vim-variant packages now contains only the /usr/bin/vim.variant
  executable
- vim package now contains some stuff which is gui related (e.g.
  pixmaps, /usr/bin/gvim symlink). IMO this is not a big issue, typing
  gvim will report the error that the installed version of vim is not
  compiled with gui support. Still, it can be solved splitting a
  vim-gui-common package. IMO this it is not worth the effort.

Binary packages and my current debian/ dir which use the alternatives
system are available here:

  http://people.debian.org/~zack/vim/

At a first glance they work properly for me and they can be upgraded
to smoothly from the current vim version in unstable.

Let me know your comments.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy
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