On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2011/4/5 János Illés <ijanos@xxxxxxxxx>: >> 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? > > Because the vast majority of vim extensions I've come across are > turned on as soon as they are installed, which means that installing > them centrally turns them on for *all* users on the system. > > /M Which (for some of us at least) would be the point. Most extensions that I use don't actually do anything outside their specific purview, so having many installed doesn't necessarily affect anything. In the case of colourschemes, having them installed system-wide means everyone can use them, which is good, isn't it? Rather than each person having to copy/install them individually.
