Redhat Linux has crippled Vim

This may not be the place to ask about this but: I recently had the misery of
trying to work with vim on a Redhat Linux distribution at a university. By
default, apparently (version 7.3) is severely crippled with minus signs next
to almost every feature one can think of -- command line completion, the
ability to format comments -- etc. They call it a ``minimal'' version.

Redhat's ``enhanced'' version is not - It adds one or two trivial features.

I tried building a decent vim from src.rpm, but had the usual nightmare:
libraries were the wrong version, files were in the wrong directory, one had
to be root, etc. etc. I tried to build vim from regular source, and laughed at
the vim.org claim that ``building vim is easy''.

I have never found building a complex binary from source ``easy'' unless one
did it on one's own OS, and had full knowledge of the locations and
requirements that the original author intended -- dispite the claims of gnu's
autoconf etc.

Any ideas why Redhat wants to convert vim back to the limitations of the old
vi?

any ideas where to find an rpm package of vim for fedora or linux that is not
severely crippled?

OK - that is my tirade. Any suggestions?

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