[X2Go-User] Vim

[Seth Galitzer]

Late to the party here, but Debian sudo does not depend on any editor 
packages:
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/sudo
Neither does Ubuntu:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/sudo

Seth

On 11/16/2017 08:25 PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> * On 11/17/2017 03:17 AM, Robert Dinse wrote:
>>        Should be but centos6 is an ancient kludge.  I really should move this
>> stuff to a modern ubuntu installation.
> 
> I've just looked it up. sudo on CentOS 7 depends upon vim-minimal, although a
> comment in the ChangeLog mentions "visudo requires vim-minimal or setting EDITOR
> to something useful (#68605)"
> 
> The bug report referenced is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=68605 -
> and it looks like this is where vim-minimal was added as a dependency.
> 
> 
> So it looks like even CentOS 7 has this bug.
> 
> Working around it is difficult, though, since without a proper EDITOR
> environment variable set, depending on vim-minimal makes sense to get visudo
> working.
> 
> The alternative would be defaulting to nano for the EDITOR variable and
> depending upon nano, but this will just shift the problem to users who hate nano.
> 
> 
> Just to be clear - this issue is present on both CentOS 6 and 7... and I figure
> Debian (or Ubuntu) don't fare better, but I haven't tested these systems.
> 
> 
> 
> Mihai
> 
> 
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