Re: Neovim

Am Freitag, dem 17.10.2025 um 20:07 +0000 schrieb oldschoolcowboy:
> pros / cons of installing Neovim? i am at the vim install page in LFS
> 12.4 systemd; alternate editors sends you to BLFS; long time user of Vim
> but recently switched to Neovim; is there an install path for Neovim on
> LFS? i know Neovim does way more that Vim; i know it also has Lua
>   
No pros/cons on installing a pkg which is not in the book. Neovim is not in
the book but that doesn't mean that it is impossible to use. After doing
LFS and build some of the BLFS packages, you'll surely be able to build it.
Just download the source tarball, extract it, run a configure or whatever
they use as build system (i think they use cmake), review options and give
it a try.

Packages not in the book may also have dependencies on other packages which
are not in the book. The build system will tell you. The procedure to build
them is just the same.

The community might not be able to answer questions about a non-book-
package. But why not becoming the one who can answer those questions if
someone else tries to install it?

Btw, the instructions shown in the PKGBUILD files of ArchLinux can give an
idea how it may work. ArchLinux does not make a mystery around their build
scripts like other distros and their instructions are shell scripts only.
But keep in mind that they do a full featured distro, maybe the
instructions are much more than what is required for your needs.

-- 
Thomas

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