[RFC] Smarter package management about nvimdots HOT 6 OPEN

The LSP servers, linters and formatters can actually be installed in system-wide on most systems, which means they are executable everywhere and maybe we just don't need mason at all?

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Maybe ask user whether to install stuffs manually or by mason, store the choice and enable mason if that is true?

Yeah that's what I meant by "optional," but ideally, I'd like to find a way to automatically bypass Mason without any user interaction. In my case, I'd love Mason to be available on my Mac, but to be automatically disabled on my FreeBSD workstation. Especially in jails when I'm doing certain experimentation, I certainly don't wanna specify that option manually lmao

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Maybe we can add an option as "platform" in our custom lazy.nvim loader and utilized the enabled flag in lazy.nvim? If platform = {"XXX OS" = false} is not set, then it will default to install the plugin on whatever OS it's on. I personally would like to disable sniprun on windows since it could not be installed on windows lol

lol that's a great idea! Tho we'll need a way to automatically register those sources with lspconfig/none-ls/dap then.

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The LSP servers, linters and formatters can actually be installed in system-wide on most systems, which means they are executable everywhere and maybe we just don't need mason at all?

Exactly! Initially, I was thinking of completely removing Mason, but without it, we'd lose the ability to automatically install those dependencies on a freshly installed system, which is kinda like the two sides of the same coin lol

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Maybe ask user whether to install stuffs manually or by mason, store the choice and enable mason if that is true ?

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In my case, I'd love Mason to be available on my Mac, but to be automatically disabled on my FreeBSD workstation.

Maybe we can add an option as "platform" in our custom lazy.nvim loader and utilized the enabled flag in lazy.nvim?
If platform = {"XXX OS" = false} is not set, then it will default to install the plugin on whatever OS it's on.
I personally would like to disable sniprun on windows since it could not be installed on windows lol

https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim?tab=readme-ov-file#-plugin-spec

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