[63254] trunk/dports/editors/vim/Portfile

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Feb 18 14:58:03 PST 2010


On Feb 18, 2010, at 15:28, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 2010-02-18 02:41 , Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 
>> What is the point of the "+x11" version?  What does it actually do
>> with X11?  Is it just the clipboard sharing or something?  I think
>> this is a variant that is best punted... maybe just call the variant
>> "no_gui" or something like that.
> 
> Yes, vim connects to the X server to provide access to the primary and
> clipboard paste buffers. It is a non-default variant as it requires X to
> be running (or causes it to launch) every time you run vim.
> 
> The +gtk2 and other GUI variants already enable this behavior (as they
> need X11 anyway), which is why I marked them conflicting. Maybe we could
> rename it to +x11_clipboard, but +no_gui would be quite misleading.

Then it should be requires, not conflicts. See attached.

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