Re: [gentoo-dev] On the use of bash-completion use flag

On 6/24/11 9:07 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> For the additional dependency, I'd put it in some common ebuild (like
> bash, or something without compiled binaries -- even better) and I'd
> put the flag there.
>
> There's no reason that a dozen of packages PDEPENDs on bash-completion.
> If one decides not to use bash-completion any longer, I don't see a
> reason to rebuild all those packages just to get rid of one PDEPEND
> (and a single file).

Seconded. I'm in favor of installing bash completion files
unconditionally, and telling the user what to emerge (bash-completion)
to use them.

This is really very very similar to logrotate I think.