> People forget vi(1) is part of POSIX so required on "systems that both > support the User Portability Utilities option and define the > POSIX2_CHAR_TERM symbol." [http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ > ] > > The former is probably a good idea, seeing as the User Portability > Utilities option in POSIX is written to be: "a requirement for a user > portability interactive system. It is required frequently except for those > systems, such as embedded realtime or dedicated application systems, that > support little or no interactive time-sharing work by users or operators" > > The latter is defined to mean that at least one terminal type has all user > control options. > > Unless Arch Linux wants to be deliberately non-POSIX compatible, vi should > be in base. The Linux kernel, glibc and various GNU utilities already deliberately deviate from POSIX compatibility in many ways. I don't think it's a very important consideration, just trivia. It's great to have vim-minimal on the install media (which is now the case), but that doesn't mean it needs to be in base.
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