Re: BLFS-12.3, ch. "Vim-9.1.1166": questionable statement in "Installation of Vim / Note"

On 6/3/25 12:29 AM, Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 18:21 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:

>> I need to update vim to sync with LFS anyway, so I'll clarify at that time.
> 
> Technically we can also use awk -i inplace or patch (someone can
> manually write a patch if they know how it works and have some spare
> time) or bash or Python scripts etc.  Or just another editor installed
> like Ed.
> 
> And today BLFS uses a merged-usr scheme, thus it's highly likely X
> libraries are just in the root partition (unless a partition is mounted
> on /opt and XORG_PREFIX is /opt/X11).
> 
> So maybe this should be just reworded to "you'll no longer be able to
> use Vim if the X libraries are broken or inaccessible."

Yes.  I did that earlier today.

   -- Bruce

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