Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-completion-2.1-r1 once again

[Joshua Kinard]

On 08/26/2014 06:51, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello, developers and users.
>
> I would like to champion the goal of bringing bash-completion-2.1-r1 to
> Gentoo. As far as I can see, nobody's been working on this since
> the first failed attempt has been reverted.
>
> Firstly, I would like to describe the differences between the old
> and the new system.
>
>
> The old system
> --------------
>
> compatdir = /etc/bash_completion.d
> oldcompdir = /usr/share/bash-completion
>
> 1. Completions and other completion-like files are installed
> in $oldcompdir.
>
> 2. On start, bash sources all files from $compatdir, explicitly
> enabling completions inside them.
>
> 3. 'eselect bashcomp' enables completions through linking files
> from $oldcompdir to $compatdir.
>
>
> What's wrong with the old system?
> ---------------------------------
>
> Well, the major issue with the old system is that for completion to
> work, it needs to loaded at start of bash. The more completions you
> enable, the more files bash needs to source and the more memory
> consumed.
>
> If you enable all completions by default, bash would need to load a lot
> of functions, most of them not even used during the session.
>
>
> The new system
> --------------
>
> completionsdir = /usr/share/bash-completion/completions
>
[snip]

I take it systems with /usr mounted separately won't be affected by this
change?  Do we need to retain the /etc/bash_completion.d compatdir in any form?

-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@g.o
4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28

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