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Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??
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Duncan |
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Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post?? |
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Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:36:25 -0700 |
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On Mon 16 Dec 2002 12:29, Eric Ortega posted as excerpted below:
[Eric Ortega..]
> > > I would assume that something happened when he typed 'vi' that was not
> > > cool. /bin/vi (on most installations) is only dependent, at most,
> > > on libraries in /lib for good reason.
> >
[Duncan..]
> > I thought the same. However, at least on Mdk, vi is a link to vim, which
> > requires libraries (perl based, IIRC from the error) in /usr.
>
> This is why I suggested that you may not have realized that you could
> probably actually run "vi" itself by a command like '/bin/vi'. Just 'vi'
> from a shell will probably attempt to run '/usr/bin/vi' first, which will
> then do the symlink thing, etc, etc.
>
> It would be incredibly bad of the Mandrake distribution to not provide
> a "real" copy of the old-school vi for just these sorts of occasions.
> In my Debian installation /bin/vi takes up 3.6 kB. (or is that kiB or
> KiB or ??)
Both the /usr/bin and the /bin variations are simply symlinks to
/etc/alternatives/ variations (uvi, vi, vim, view), which are further
symlinks back to /usr/bin/vim-enhanced (view thru another symlink loop to vi,
which links to /etc/alternatives/vi, which of course links to
/usr/bin/vim-enhanced).
However, upon further investigation, there IS a /bin/vim-minimal that's an
actual executable of 421.5 KB. It's likely that it's stand-alone, or at
least doesn't require anything on /usr. However, that moniker does seem a
bit less-than-intuitive. ... I just did an rpm -qi vim-minimal, as I
remembered seeing it listed during a few of my urpmi update sessions, and
confirmed that yes, "The vim-minimal package includes a minimal version of
VIM, which is installed into /bin/vi for use when only the root partition is
present."
Thanks. I now know that for next time. (Still, can't see putting that on a
rescue floppy... However, since the install CDs can be used for rescue, I
assume they use that instead, and can afford the nearly half a meg.)
--
Duncan
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --
Benjamin Franklin
- Re: OT: Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??, (continued)
- Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom, 2002/12/13
- Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??, Eric Ortega, 2002/12/13
- Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??, Duncan, 2002/12/13
- Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??, Eric Ortega, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??, John J. LeMay Jr., 2002/12/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??, Eric Ortega, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??,
Duncan <=
- Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??, Eric Ortega, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??, Duncan, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??, Mark Janssen, 2002/12/17