The new policy for vim addons on Debian is that the addons should not be enabled by default. You have to install vim-addon-manager and use vim-addons to turn them on.

So while I can apt-get install insecured and the daemon will automatically be run, I can't apt-get install vim-vimoutliner and edit .otl files in outline mode by default. Seems weird or backwards, no?

The vim-addons program does solve several problems, like being able to disable addons, or selectively enable addons from vim-scripts. But I've read all the docs I can find about this, and I can't find a rationalle for why the addons should be disabled by default. Seems to me that addons could simply run vim-addons from their maintainer scripts. Any reason not to?

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