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awagner

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From: Mainz, Germany

Registered: 2007-08-24

Posts: 191

Archlinux policy WRT /usr/share/vim/vim72 vs. /usr/share/vim/vimfiles

Hi all,

with the recent vim upgrade I have notified a couple of package maintainers that they would have to move some vim support files that are in their packages (e.g. syntax highlighting) out of /usr/share/vim/syntax and similar into subdirectories. However, I'm afraid I might have suggested something wrong there: My suggestion was that they be put in /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax and so on, but Pierre has already updated his cmake package (bugreport) and moved it into /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax etc.

Since I've also seen similar discussions at least in the latexsuite package (now removed since the packages have been renamed), and so I wonder what is the difference resp. the Archlinux policy with regard to those two directories: /usr/share/vim/vim72 vs. /usr/share/vim/vimfiles. (Personally, I thought that the vim72 subdirectory is for the distribution of vim itself, whereas distribution-specific stuff would go to the vimfiles subdirectory. - That's where the latex-suite package's files are now, too.)

Anyone with more sound reasoning or an insight into some quasi-"official" view on the question?

TIA,
Andreas

iamcraig

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Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 5

Re: Archlinux policy WRT /usr/share/vim/vim72 vs. /usr/share/vim/vimfiles

Based upon my reading of the vim documentation and personal preference, I'd say that files distributed with vim belong in $VIMRUNTIME (e.g. $VIM/vim72) and other/extra/modified system-wide files belong in $VIM/vimfiles, where $VIM in Arch is /usr/share/vim. (For the sake of completeness: user-specific files go in $HOME/.vim)

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Archlinux policy WRT /usr/share/vim/vim72 vs. /usr/share/vim/vimfiles

Actually the bug report asked to move from /usr/share/vim to /usr/share/vim/vimfiles
So I am confused..

Edit : ok I see now : http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/c … 3&r2=52345
Pierre moved from /usr/share/vim to /usr/share/vim/vim72 instead.

Last edited by shining (2009-10-08 11:13:01)

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