On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 13:18, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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]. :-) I'm interested in the cons of having centrally installed vim plugins. For me it seems these things you mentioned are basically doing a job of a package manager (keeping track of, and updating files) so why not use pacman for this purpose? -- János