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On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 02:18:27PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:11:35 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | On Saturday 23 October 2004 11:55 pm, Aaron Walker wrote: |
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> | > Currently bash-completion files are installed into |
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> | > /usr/share/bash-completion regardless of whether or not the user |
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> | > wants them. |
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> | any reason we cant develop a package of bash-completion extras ? |
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> | then, if the user wants all these zany extras, they just `emerge |
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> | bash-completion-extras` ?-mike |
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> Yup. Each bash-completion file in use makes bash a bit slower to start |
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> up. If we installed and activated several hundred bash-completion files |
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> it'd get pretty painful. Hence the whole bash-completion-config thing... |
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/usr/share/bash-completion does not get sources by default so |
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installing files there by default does not cause any system |
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slow-down. I don't think useflag is needed to install those. |
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The only additional bash-completion script which gets |
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automaticaly installed is the gentoo-specific completion. |
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(bash-completion only sources the stuff in /etc) |
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Christian |
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