I'm assuming he means something more like a single CLI utility for managing plugins from a centralized source. Like pacman, apt-get, npm, etc. It doesn't exist

I'm assuming he means something more like a single CLI utility for managing plugins from a centralized source. Like pacman, apt-get, npm, etc. It doesn't exist per se, but install pathogen or vundle and you can pretend github is your centralized source, and git your package manager.