Bug#432488: does not honour vim's runtimepath

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

tags 432488 + wontfix
thanks

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:30:54AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
>   set rtp=/home/madduck/.etc/vim.new,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/vim71,...
> 
> Yet, when I use vim-addon install, it stuffs links into ~/.vim, even
> creating the directory if it did not yet exist. I am not sure how
> easy it is to parse runtimepath, but it would be great if it did:
> iterate the directories and install to the first writeable one.

Thinking again about this bug report.  I'm now convinced I do not want
to support this kind of stuff directly in vim-addon-manager.

The rationale is what I already pointed out in the bugreport: simply
parsing runtimepath is not enough to distinguish which components are
user's and which are system-wide. The "check if it is writable" is not
reliable (think at the root example I gave).

So I don't see any sane way to support this feature request, hence I'm
taggin the bugs as "wontfix" (and I will close the bug at some point in
the future).  I'll be happy to change my mind if you come up with some
sane policy to support this.

Thanks anyway for the bugreport.
Cheers.

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