Re: vim syntax file packaging

["Douglas E. Warner" <silfreed silfreed net>]

Nikolay Vladimirov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was wondering if there is a proper way of packaging vim syntax
> files. 
> When I did ' yum whatprovides \*.vim ' I saw 4 ways of doing this:
>
> 1) Add the files to /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftdetect/ and
> /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/. One package even provides a 
> subpackage only for the vim syntax. I think this is done because the
> subpackage can require vim. which is reasonable if you install a vim
> syntax file.  
> 2) Add them in /usr/share/doc/packagename
> 3) Add them in /usr/share/packagename
> 4) Distributed with vim-common
>
> So is there a guideline I missed? 
> Is it for the packager to decide?
> It's good to have at least some 'best practice' note about this. 

Checkout how the syslog-ng package installs it's plugin; it's a big 
kludgy, but works pretty well.

-Doug