nobody even provides a package with it, only damn vim. Is there any package with only vi left?
On ubuntu-based systems vi is typically provided by vim-tiny to run vim in vi mode. Some other distros independently package the busybox vi as a package called vi. If you're looking for the old BSD vi it can't compile or run on modern Linux anyway.
>>108639675>If you're looking for the old BSD vi it can't compile or run on modern Linux anyway.Ubuntu has an nvi package.
>>108639658try nvi, it still works in some distros.
>>108639675>Some other distros independently package the busybox vi as a package called viNobody does this anymore because busybox has made it too hard and also isn't even fully POSIX compliant with their vi. Also I know Arch used to use a fork of the BSD vi but recently switched to vim in vi mode because even that fork can't build anymore. Ironically it's easier to run proper vi on Windows these days than Linux.
>>108639697This no longer builds on the latest kernel and glibc. It'll be gone even from LTS distros well before the end of the decade. Bram successfully eliminated all competitors.
>>108641950but why?
>>108641950>doesn't bother maintaining it at all just concedes immediately
vi is a link to vim in compat mode
>>108639697thank you, anon, it still better than nothing
>>108639658I think debian ships with vi by default unless I am mistaken. I do remember running vi and getting annoyed by keybinds behaving weird because it actually was vi.
>>108639658maybe could look at compiling from source
>>108645666I'm not doing gentoo again satan
>>108646503>i want to Linux >but i wont learn to compile from source gay baby retard
