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Remove vim-tiny from install media

Bug #1069413 reported by dotancohen
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Bug Description

Finally with Ubuntu 12.10 the full VIM is installed by default. However, the package vim-tiny is _also_ installed, and frustratingly it is the vim-tiny binary that is used when typing 'vim' on the CLI. Please remove the vim-tiny package from the default install as it is 1) redundant now that full VIM is installed by default, and 2) harmful in the fact that it masks the VIM binary.

Note that there was a request to remove vim-tiny back in 2007, but it was (rightfully) rejected at the time due to space considerations in the install media. Now, removing vim-tiny will actually save space due to full VIM being installed by default anyway:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/100029

Thanks.:wq

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dotancohen (dotancohen)
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James McCoy (jamessan) wrote :

There's no reason the vim-tiny alternatives should mask any of the alternatives from the more featureful vim packages. The vim-tiny package doesn't even provide an alternative for /usr/bin/vim and all of the alternatives it does provide are ranked at a lower priority than every other vim package. If vim-tiny is masking anything, then there's an alternative in manual rather than automatic mode somewhere.

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