On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:47, Peter Lewis <plewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> Checked out some other vim colour-themes on the AUR, the majority seem >> to install to the same location. Some choose /usr/share/vim/vim** >> instead, but that breaks when vim updates. Perhaps >> /usr/share/vim/vimfiles makes more sense (only found one PKGBUILD >> using that so far). > > I believe that now the correct behaviour is for things that are version specific > to go in /usr/share/vim/vimXX and everything else to go in > /usr/share/vim/vimfiles. > > Some vim-ninja can probably correct me, though :-) > > Pete. > > PS. Yes, by this standard, many PKGBUILDS in the AUR are wrong, and need fixing. IMNSHO there are *very* few vim extensions that should ever be installed centrally. I'd recommend every vim user to embrace GetLatestVimScripts[1] instead. For the other stuff (read "broken vim extensions") I created vim-scripts-mgr[2]. :-) /M [1]: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=642 [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26318 -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
