On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 16:27:39 -0400 Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Packages currently handle installation of vim syntax support files > inconsistently. Some builds install the files if the "vim-syntax" USE > flag is enabled, while others install them unconditionally. > > Do these files fall into the "small text files" category for > unconditional installation? If so, we should probably phase out the > vim-syntax USE flag. > > If we want to keep the USE flag, I would suggest documenting a global > policy regarding its use. Should that live in the devmanual? Or maybe > the Vim project page?
One potential issue is help files: any Vim plugin that comes with documentation needs a little script (which requires Vim to be installed) to be run in pkg_postinst. -- Ciaran McCreesh
