PaqClean removes itself

[lunjon]

When I called :PaqClean it removed itself from ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/paqs/opt/. That is, the plugin basically uninstalled itself.

Here's my lua code that load plugins using paq:

vim.cmd("packadd paq-nvim")
local paq = require("paq-nvim").paq

local function setup()
    paq('neovim/nvim-lspconfig')
    paq('nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter')
    paq('nvim-treesitter/playground')
    -- More plugins
end

return {
    setup = setup
}

As you can see there's nothing strange, and everything else works fine.

Thank you for this awesome and minimalistic plugin manager!

[savq]

Hi,

You should add Paq itself to the list of packages like so:

paq{'savq/paq-nvim', opt=true}

I think this was in the readme before, or maybe I just forgot to add it. Sorry for the inconvenience 😞

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Since Paq is installed in the same directory as any other package, it also manages itself. This allows it to update itself without additional mechanisms.

[lunjon]

Alright, that fixes it!

Thank you for the help.

[alxndr]

I have listed savq/paq-nvim in my config, however it still removes itself when running PaqClean. Has something changed?

https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/8d3344765cd4ac2c2712ed8ad9c12979e5df9a12/nvim/init.lua#L13

[savq]

Hey @alxndr, how long have you been using Paq? If you began to use it recently (in the last week or so), you might not need the opt option.

require 'paq-nvim' {
    'savq/paq-nvim';
    -- etc.
}

If you want to keep using paq as optional, make sure you clone it to an opt directory, instead of a start directory:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/savq/paq-nvim.git \
    "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/pack/paqs/opt/paq-nvim

[alxndr]

@savq ah yes, just began using it yesterday! I'll give that a try, thanks.