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So, I’m struggling somewhat with the move to Arch. Not that Arch is problematic in any way, it seems to be me and my “debianised thinking”.

I noticed that the Vim plugins that were packaged for Arch all install in system directories and hence are imposed on all users. Not a good thing. So, inspired by Debian’s vim-addons-manager, I hacked up a solution relying on pacman. Then I packaged two Vim plugins for Arch. The idea was to do rather than talk, so it wasn’t until after this that I asked for feedback on aur-general. Just to have the idea shot down

Anyway, after being presented with an existing solution more inline with “the Arch way” I decided to try it out. I’ve now subscribed to using GetLatestVimScripts. Brilliant.

Now I need to convince the author of haskellmode to put it on vim.org and I really ought to get my packages off AUR.

A few days ago I packaged the vim haskellmode for Arch Linux and uploaded it to AUR.

After the previous setup steps I found the next task was to add a few odds and ends really were needed before proceeding to other major things, like audio, email, and such. Several of the things I needed are available from AUR so to make things easier I started by adding archlinuxfr to my /etc/pacman.conf:

--- pacman.conf_orig    2009-05-09 18:47:19.825013872 +0100
+++ pacman.conf 2009-04-26 08:22:05.471685249 +0100
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@
 # Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
 Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

+[archlinuxfr]
+Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64
+
 # An example of a custom package repository.  See the pacman manpage for
 # tips on creating your own repositories.
 #[custom]

After that I updated the package listings (pacman -Sy) and installed yaourt (pacman -S yaourt).

After this I could easily install the other packages I need:

1. nautilus-dropbox
2. encfs
3. pam_mount
4. keysafe
5. hpodder
6. twitux

Only pam_mount needed some extra configuration. First I added two lines each to /etc/pam.d/gdm and /etc/pam.d/login:

auth        optional    pam_mount.so
session     optional    pam_mount.so

Then I modified /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml to allow users to have their own configs, that’s done by uncommenting the line

<luserconf name=".pam_mount.conf.xml" />