[arch-general] Where should system-wide vim files go?

Peter Lewis plewis at aur.archlinux.org
Tue Apr 5 05:47:19 EDT 2011


Hi,

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> Checked out some other vim colour-themes on the AUR, the majority seem
> to install to the same location. Some choose /usr/share/vim/vim**
> instead, but that breaks when vim updates. Perhaps
> /usr/share/vim/vimfiles makes more sense (only found one PKGBUILD
> using that so far).

I believe that now the correct behaviour is for things that are version specific
to go in /usr/share/vim/vimXX and everything else to go in
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles.

Some vim-ninja can probably correct me, though :-)

Pete.

PS. Yes, by this standard, many PKGBUILDS in the AUR are wrong, and need fixing.


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