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+title: Vim vs Neovim on FreeBSD
+description: >
+  Spoilers: for some reason, vim has 103 dependencies and neovim has 7.
+---
+
+I have a [FreeBSD server](/freebsd.html) which primarily serves as a jail host.
+As such, I'd like to keep its installed packages to a minimum. FreeBSD's
+default install comes with `vi`, but not `vim`. Using `vi` feels familiar
+enough, but it becomes annoying not to have things like `gg` available. So I
+decided to install vim to make my life a little nicer:
+
+<!--more-->
+
+    $ sudo pkg install vim
+    Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
+    FreeBSD repository is up to date.
+    All repositories are up to date.
+    The following 103 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
+
+    New packages to be INSTALLED:
+            vim: 8.1.1439
+            libXpm: 3.5.12_2
+            libXext: 1.3.4,1
+            libXau: 1.0.9
+            libX11: 1.6.8,1
+            libxcb: 1.13.1
+            libXdmcp: 1.1.3
+            xorgproto: 2019.1
+            libxml2: 2.9.9
+            libpthread-stubs: 0.4
+            libXt: 1.2.0,1
+            libSM: 1.2.3,1
+            libICE: 1.0.9_3,1
+            pango: 1.42.4_2
+            libXrender: 0.9.10_2
+            xorg-fonts-truetype: 7.7_1
+            font-misc-meltho: 1.0.3_4
+            mkfontscale: 1.2.1
+            libfontenc: 1.1.4
+            freetype2: 2.10.0
+            fontconfig: 2.12.6,1
+            font-misc-ethiopic: 1.0.3_4
+            font-bh-ttf: 1.0.3_4
+            encodings: 1.0.5,1
+            font-util: 1.3.1
+            dejavu: 2.37_1
+            libXft: 2.3.2_3
+            harfbuzz: 2.5.3
+            graphite2: 1.3.13
+            cairo: 1.16.0,2
+            pixman: 0.34.0_1
+            png: 1.6.37
+            mesa-libs: 18.3.2_1
+            libxshmfence: 1.3
+            libXxf86vm: 1.1.4_3
+            libXfixes: 5.0.3_2
+            libXdamage: 1.1.5
+            wayland: 1.16.0_1
+            libepoll-shim: 0.0.20190311
+            libdrm: 2.4.98_1,1
+            libpciaccess: 0.14
+            pciids: 20190620
+            libunwind: 20170615
+            glib: 2.56.3_5,1
+            xkeyboard-config: 2.27
+            libXrandr: 1.5.2
+            libedit: 3.1.20190324,1
+            libepoxy: 1.5.2
+            fribidi: 0.19.7
+            gtk3: 3.24.9
+            libxkbcommon: 0.8.4
+            libXinerama: 1.1.4_2,1
+            libXi: 1.7.10,1
+            libXcursor: 1.2.0
+            libXcomposite: 0.4.5,1
+            adwaita-icon-theme: 3.28.0
+            gtk-update-icon-cache: 2.24.32
+            shared-mime-info: 1.10_1
+            hicolor-icon-theme: 0.17
+            gdk-pixbuf2: 2.36.12
+            tiff: 4.0.10_1
+            jpeg-turbo: 2.0.2
+            jbigkit: 2.1_1
+            atk: 2.28.1
+            cups: 2.2.11
+            gnutls: 3.6.8
+            trousers: 0.3.14_2
+            tpm-emulator: 0.7.4_2
+            gmp: 6.1.2_1
+            p11-kit: 0.23.16.1
+            libtasn1: 4.13_1
+            nettle: 3.4.1_1
+            libidn2: 2.2.0
+            libunistring: 0.9.10_1
+            libpaper: 1.1.24.4
+            avahi-app: 0.7_2
+            gnome_subr: 1.0
+            libdaemon: 0.14_1
+            gobject-introspection: 1.56.1,1
+            dbus-glib: 0.110
+            dbus: 1.12.12
+            gdbm: 1.18.1_1
+            wayland-protocols: 1.17
+            librsvg2: 2.40.20
+            libcroco: 0.6.12
+            libgsf: 1.14.44
+            colord: 1.3.5
+            polkit: 0.114_2
+            spidermonkey52: 52.9.0_3
+            nspr: 4.21
+            icu: 64.2,1
+            sqlite3: 3.28.0
+            desktop-file-utils: 0.23
+            lcms2: 2.9
+            argyllcms: 1.9.2_4
+            libXScrnSaver: 1.2.3_2
+            at-spi2-atk: 2.26.2
+            at-spi2-core: 2.28.0
+            libXtst: 1.2.3_2
+            ruby: 2.5.5_2,1
+            libyaml: 0.2.2
+            ctags: 5.8
+            cscope: 15.8b_1
+
+    Number of packages to be installed: 103
+
+    The process will require 517 MiB more space.
+    96 MiB to be downloaded.
+
+Whoa, what?! Why do I need wayland and gtk for _vim_? `^C^C^C`
+
+    $ sudo pkg install neovim
+    ]Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
+    FreeBSD repository is up to date.
+    All repositories are up to date.
+    The following 7 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
+
+    New packages to be INSTALLED:
+            neovim: 0.3.8
+            luajit: 2.0.5_3
+            unibilium: 2.0.0
+            msgpack: 3.2.0
+            libvterm: git20161218
+            libuv: 1.30.1
+            libtermkey: 0.22
+
+    Number of packages to be installed: 7
+
+    The process will require 28 MiB more space.
+    5 MiB to be downloaded.
+
+Much more palatable.