@q66 as a potential hot take, nano with the base system is at least better than vi
not sure why they think they can't just remove nano though
@krum we have vi as well as nano in most "full" setups (vi is a part of chimerautils-extra, nano is pulled in through base-full)
you can't just "remove" nano because it's itself a dependency, but something like `apk add '!base-full-misc'` will remove it (along with some other packages which you can add back), the base metas are organized with soft dependencies intentionally
@q66 of course, i probably should have elaborated a little bit, i tend to avoid metapackages for this exact reason on my systems, generally running void at the moment
i'd like to imagine this isn't too much of a stretch for a manually installed distro
@krum you are expected to always use the metapackages on chimera, it's deliberately set up flexibly so that users get a "complete" system by default but still get control when they want to avoid something (and it makes proper use of what apk has to offer)
installing individual things for "base" systems is just clunky (and somewhat fragile) and leads to people having to worry about things they shouldn't have to care about at all, so i ditched that kind of path early on
nina
Kris 