This is the reddit thread where the lead of the project talks about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1n2nax0/why_vimpack_was_based_on_minideps_but_

This is the reddit thread where the lead of the project talks about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1n2nax0/why_vimpack_was_based_on_minideps_but_not_lazynvim/nbc9wsl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1n2nax0/why_vimpack... It doesn't answer your question about plugin dependencies (although vim.pack lets you handle this), but it might give you more insight on where vim.pack will go in the future.