> > The other eventual disadvantage would be needed customizations > > (like > > handling attributes in "mv" and "cp"), and/or testing of newer > > versions. > > IMO, needing to install more packages would be acceptable as long > > as it > > would be done automatically when building Haiku (and if we maybe > > had a > > target that resolves all such dependencies without actually > > building > > Haiku). > > If such a change has an immediate benefit and is well tested, like I > presume the vim change is, I would be ok with it. However at this > time, I > would be against doing such changes just for the sake of moving stuff > out > of the Haiku source tree without any other immediate benefit besides > reducing build time. There is no problem in doing this later, after > we have > released alpha/1. Plus it complicates making a useable build for other platforms... WTF with vim anyway... :| François.