Inconsistent loading order of packages and their parts #7056
Description
Describe the bug
It seems there is different loading order of plugins and their parts if using empty vimrc / packload / packadd / packadd!
To Reproduce
I've created https://github.com/sheerun/vim-packages-bug that should better illustrate the problem. You can run there bash script.sh to produce following output:
- Putting package in
~/.vim/pack/*/start/*without pack commands in ~/.vimrc
loading plugin/*.vim after native vim plugins
loading ftdetect/*.vim after native filetype.vim
loading after/plugin/*.vim after native vim plugins
Press ENTER or type command to continue
- Putting package in
~/.vim/pack/*/start/*withpackload
loading plugin/*.vim before native vim plugins
loading ftdetect/*.vim after native filetype.vim
loading plugin/*.vim before native vim plugins
loading after/plugin/*.vim after native vim plugins
Press ENTER or type command to continue
- Putting package in
~/.vim/pack/*/start/*withpackadd vim-packages-bugin vimrc
loading plugin/*.vim before native vim plugins
loading ftdetect/*.vim after native filetype.vim
loading plugin/*.vim before native vim plugins
loading plugin/*.vim after native vim plugins
loading ftdetect/*.vim after native filetype.vim
loading after/plugin/*.vim after native vim plugins
Press ENTER or type command to continue
- Putting package in
~/.vim/pack/*/start/*withpackadd! vim-packages-bugin vimrc
loading plugin/*.vim before native vim plugins
loading plugin/*.vim after native vim plugins
loading ftdetect/*.vim after native filetype.vim
loading after/plugin/*.vim after native vim plugins
Press ENTER or type command to continue
- Putting package in
~/.vim/pack/*/opt/*withpackadd vim-packages-bugin vimrc
loading plugin/*.vim before native vim plugins
loading ftdetect/*.vim after native filetype.vim
loading plugin/*.vim before native vim plugins
loading after/plugin/*.vim after native vim plugins
Press ENTER or type command to continue
- Putting package in
~/.vim/pack/*/opt/*withpackadd! vim-packages-bugin vimrc
loading plugin/*.vim before native vim plugins
loading after/plugin/*.vim after native vim plugins
Press ENTER or type command to continue
To summarize
pluginscan be loaded before or after vim plugins, possibly multiple timesftdetectis loaded always after vim filetypes, possibly multiple times (all other package managers always load ftdetect before vim native files..)- In some cases no part of plugin is loaded before vim parts
Things get even worse if multiple packages are used, because then they can be loaded in alphabetical order (no pack commands), in defined order (packadd commands), or reverse defined order (packadd! commands), and all combinations of these. Order of loading is also affected if some plugins are calling filetype plugin indent on within themselves (like vim-sensible). Also all other package managers are loading filetype.vim of plugin while vim8 packages do not, ever.
Honestly it's pretty overwhelming for someone who would like to depend on some order of loading in package manager (the vim-polyglot plugin I'm developing needs to be loaded before vim's filetype.vim, and other plugins overriding its autocommands).
Environment (please complete the following information):
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Sep 16 2020 23:47:44)
macOS version
Included patches: 1-1700
Compiled by Homebrew
Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
+acl -farsi +mouse_sgr +tag_binary
+arabic +file_in_path -mouse_sysmouse -tag_old_static
+autocmd +find_in_path +mouse_urxvt -tag_any_white
+autochdir +float +mouse_xterm -tcl
-autoservername +folding +multi_byte +termguicolors
-balloon_eval -footer +multi_lang +terminal
+balloon_eval_term +fork() -mzscheme +terminfo
-browse +gettext +netbeans_intg +termresponse
++builtin_terms -hangul_input +num64 +textobjects
+byte_offset +iconv +packages +textprop
+channel +insert_expand +path_extra +timers
+cindent +ipv6 +perl +title
-clientserver +job +persistent_undo -toolbar
+clipboard +jumplist +popupwin +user_commands
+cmdline_compl +keymap +postscript +vartabs
+cmdline_hist +lambda +printer +vertsplit
+cmdline_info +langmap +profile +virtualedit
+comments +libcall -python +visual
+conceal +linebreak +python3 +visualextra
+cryptv +lispindent +quickfix +viminfo
+cscope +listcmds +reltime +vreplace
+cursorbind +localmap +rightleft +wildignore
+cursorshape +lua +ruby +wildmenu
+dialog_con +menu +scrollbind +windows
+diff +mksession +signs +writebackup
+digraphs +modify_fname +smartindent -X11
-dnd +mouse -sound -xfontset
-ebcdic -mouseshape +spell -xim
+emacs_tags +mouse_dec +startuptime -xpm
+eval -mouse_gpm +statusline -xsmp
+ex_extra -mouse_jsbterm -sun_workshop -xterm_clipboard
+extra_search +mouse_netterm +syntax -xterm_save
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim"
fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/local/share/vim"
Compilation: clang -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMACOS_X -DMACOS_X_DARWIN -g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1
Linking: clang -L. -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/opt/libyaml/lib -L/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib -L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o vim -lncurses -liconv -lintl -framework AppKit -L/usr/local/opt/lua/lib -llua5.3 -mmacosx-version-min=10.15 -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/perl/5.32.0/lib/perl5/5.32.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE -lperl -lm -lutil -lc -L/usr/local/opt/python@3.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/config-3.8-darwin -lpython3.8 -framework CoreFoundation -lruby.2.7