Enable single-addon package by default

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Sun Aug 21 18:24:59 UTC 2016


On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 05:07:17PM +0200, David Rabel wrote:
> while thinking about this preinst-postinst-thing it came to my mind,
> that it is actually never save to remove a package, when a user
> installed the addon by "vim-addon-manager install addon". There will
> always remain the broken symlinks in the user's ~/.vim/ directory.

Wouldn't "vam remove addon" handle cleaning those up?  The symlinks
themselves, although dangling, wouldn't be harmful in and of themselves.
This is sort of analogous to removing a package vs. purging it.

> My personal opinion is, that every vim addon that is packaged for debian
> should provide a possibility to disable it (which actually seems to be
> only three lines) and that vim-addon-manager should not provide a
> possibility to install or remove addons to/from the users ~/.vim/ .

If addons were enabled by default, I suppose that would make more sense.
Then the user could simply disable the (system-wide) installed addon.
However, if an addon had been disabled system-wide, how would you
suggest a non-admin user to install it?

Cheers,
-- 
James
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