diff --git a/pkgbuilds/omarchy-nvim/PKGBUILD b/pkgbuilds/omarchy-nvim/PKGBUILD
index 1c090715..56dfebc5 100644
--- a/pkgbuilds/omarchy-nvim/PKGBUILD
+++ b/pkgbuilds/omarchy-nvim/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Ryan Hughes <ryan@omarchy.org>
 pkgname=omarchy-nvim
-pkgver=2026.7.23
+pkgver=2026.7.27
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Pre-built LazyVim configuration with cached plugins"
 arch=('any')
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ package() {
   ln -snf "../../../../.local/state/omarchy/current/theme/neovim.lua" \
     "$pkgdir/etc/skel/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/theme.lua"
 
+  # Ship the plugin cache once, now that /etc/skel has its copy. Keeping a
+  # second one under /usr/share made omarchy-nvim the largest package in an
+  # Omarchy install after noto-fonts-cjk — ~116 MiB installed, ~88 MB of it read
+  # off the ISO on every install. config/ stays: migrations read it from there.
+  rm -rf "$pkgdir/usr/share/$pkgname/data"
+
   # Install setup/refresh commands to /usr/bin. setup fills missing pieces;
   # refresh explicitly backs up and overwrites with the same /etc/skel defaults
   # used for newly-created users.
diff --git a/pkgbuilds/omarchy-nvim/omarchy-nvim-setup b/pkgbuilds/omarchy-nvim/omarchy-nvim-setup
index f7e2d5ac..26d56fa5 100755
--- a/pkgbuilds/omarchy-nvim/omarchy-nvim-setup
+++ b/pkgbuilds/omarchy-nvim/omarchy-nvim-setup
@@ -49,14 +49,15 @@ EOF
 done
 
 # Prefer /etc/skel so legacy setup/refresh uses the exact seed copied into new
-# users' homes. Fall back to the package share dir for older package layouts.
-if [[ ! -d "$CONFIG_SOURCE_DIR" || ! -d "$DATA_SOURCE_DIR" ]]; then
+# users' homes. Only the config tree still has a package-dir copy to fall back
+# on for older package layouts; the plugin cache ships once, in /etc/skel.
+if [[ ! -d "$CONFIG_SOURCE_DIR" ]]; then
   CONFIG_SOURCE_DIR="$PACKAGE_DIR/config"
-  DATA_SOURCE_DIR="$PACKAGE_DIR/data"
 fi
 
 if [[ ! -d "$CONFIG_SOURCE_DIR" || ! -d "$DATA_SOURCE_DIR" ]]; then
-  echo "Error: omarchy-nvim defaults not found; is omarchy-nvim installed?" >&2
+  echo "Error: omarchy-nvim defaults not found in $CONFIG_SOURCE_DIR / $DATA_SOURCE_DIR." >&2
+  echo "The package owns both; restore them with: sudo pacman -S omarchy-nvim" >&2
   exit 1
 fi