Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??

[Mark Janssen]

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 23:14, Duncan wrote:
> On Mon 16 Dec 2002 14:04, Eric Ortega posted as excerpted below:
> > As opposed to going through packaging, you can try 'ldd /bin/vim-minimal'
> > to see the dependencies.  This, in an empirical sense, will probably be
> > more "valid" than whatever the package maintainer said, AFAIK.
> 
> I was just WISHING for such an animal...  I think I'd seen it mentioned 
> elsewhere, but had forgotten about it.  Thanks.
[snip]
> That's quite a bit lower in dependencies, and isn't a symlink.  Note that the 
> package description I quoted earlier was wrong, as you mentioned, because it 
> said it was installed into /bin/vi, when it is actually installed into 
> /bin/vim-minimal.

Debian has elvis-tiny as the minimalist vi package in /bin
$ ls -la /bin/vi
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3660 Jan 23  2002 /bin/vi
$ ls -la /bin/elvis-tiny 
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        67436 Jan 23  2002 /bin/elvis-tiny

/bin/vi is actually a piece of wrapper code that makes some checks and
then runs a VI version that's available (and working in the current
environment).

As you can see elvis-tiny is really small and it's library requirements
are very minimal (and all in /lib)

$ ldd /bin/elvis-tiny 
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4001a000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40059000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Elvis(-tiny) is mostly vi compatible and still has some nice features. I

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Mark Janssen <address@hidden>
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