Re: Why is vim-X11 (gvim) missing from RHE3?

["nathan r. hruby" <nhruby uga edu>]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Bob Arendt wrote:

> I've searched the archives; Karsten gives a partial answer in
>    http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109040
> 
> Quote:
>      Product management looked at each package and decided
>      if we should include it in the Enterprise version.
>      Unfortunately gvim wasn't on the list.
> 
> My real question is:  Why wasn't it on the list?  Could this just
> be a simple oversight by product management?  If there's a problem with
> vim-X11, I'd suspect vim-enhanced would have a similar problem.
> 

Huh.. guess they haven't found this one to close yet:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115440

> Though the vim-X11 package is easily rebuilt (and works), it would be
> nice to just install it from the original media.
> 
> Since we've bought several RHE-AS/WS contracts, is there a more official
> way to request the re-inclusion gvim?
> 

Open a support case, refuse to let them close it until you get a definite
yes/no about it's inclusion.
 
-n
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