[Buildroot] [PATCH] vim: install /bin/vi as a relative symlink

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 05:57:06 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:

> My vim patch is at
> 
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/943314/
> 
> I marked it as Rejected following the comment of Arnout. Carlos' patch
> works around the merged /usr issue by changing the symlink target for
> merged /usr. In my opinion this solution is error prone. It would be
> much easier to allow dangling symlinks in the target directory, and
> tweak the busybox install.sh to cope with that. That's what my pending
> busybox patch suggests.
> 
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/944884/

Allowing dangling symlinks is indeed desirable, but I think it is also
nice if we have as few dangling symlinks are possible. It looks cleaner
to me. So like Carlos said, I believe both your patch fixing the
Busybox installation and Carlos patch adjusting vim are useful.

Best regards,

Thomas
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