Option to disable plugin

Hi,

Is it possible to somehow disable this plugin globally?

nvim-web-devicons is being pulled in as a dependency of a plugin (oil.nvim) from my package manager (Nix) and therefore enabling icons for all of my other plugins.😔

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The option to call setup with a boolean flag:

require'nvim-web-devicons'.setup {
 disable = true
}

Feels more like something that oil.nvim should address, really.

Feels more like something that oil.nvim should address, really.

Yes. Most plugins (including nvim-tree) use nvim-web-devicons only when it has been explicitly installed by the user. They don't have a hard dependency on it.

Does oil have a dependency on nvim-web-devicons or is the plugin manager adding that dependency?

return {
    'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons',
    opts = { variant = 'dark' },
    enabled = false,
}

you can do the enabled = false and this works for every plugins I guess
I use the lazy.nvim

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