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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.