Comment 8 for bug 1884583

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Adrien Beau (adrienbeau) wrote :

Also filed (and fixed!) in Arch Linux: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63073

A build switch was introduced in Vim 8.1.1529, so vim can be built with --disable-canberra.
Commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/21606676d9ebc6f159c56ee90733e5d5720ab3d7

Even though it is technically "no X", I think the underlying package philosophy is "no desktop", and bringing in sound-theme-freedesktop, Vorbis, Ogg and libasound very much goes against that.

That said, the "no X" build is a rather fat build with many dependencies to scripting languages, so disk size is not much of an argument for that package. On the other hand, the regular, main "vim" package has (or used to have) very few dependencies (3 on a barebone Ubuntu install). Canberra adds 9 more...

Please build "vim" with --disable-canberra: because it should have few dependencies
Please build "vim-nox" with --disable-canberra: because it should be "no desktop"