On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 5:25 AM Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > thanks to Pawel Marciniak's pull request [1] I'm happy to announce > vim-default-editor subpackage, which easily sets/removes Vim as the > default editor by installing/uninstalling the subpackage. > > Because of nano was selected as a default editor since Fedora 33+, the > new subpackage conflicts with nano-default-editor subpackage to ensure > the correct behavior. It means the dnf transaction needs to use > '--allowerasing' option when installing vim-default-editor is going to > be installed and nano-default-editor is already installed and vice versa. > > Vim's NVR which introduced the subpackage is 2:8.2.1815-2, the build > containing the subpackage will go into updates for F31+ tomorrow. > > Enjoy when it comes to the updates! > > [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/vim/pull-request/11 > There are two significant problems with this package: 1. It doesn't work for Fish, since Fish doesn't actually *read* profile.d (did you look at how nano-default-editor *actually* set things up?) 2. Having subpackages like this that conflict by name is going to get crazy really fast, so we need a virtual name to make RPM only permit one of them at a time. And really, why do you need this instead of just uninstalling the nano-default-editor package? Vim is the POSIX default already... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
