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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:52:13 -0500 (EST) Ed Grimm |
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<paranoid@××××××××××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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| 1. Why not the shells themselves? Is this merely to avoid stepping on |
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| toes, or is there a technical reason as well? |
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Partly that, partly because bash (for example) really *is* an actual |
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base system package. Also because I'd rather keep the scope of the herd |
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managable. This is not an appropriate herd for world + dog that happens |
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to be runnable from inside a terminal. |
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| 2. Why would app-shells/bash-completion be part of whatever herd |
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| managed bash? (I'd assume that's base-system, but that's an |
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| assumption.) Completion is an integral part of tcsh and zsh; to the |
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| extent it exists, it's an integral part of csh and ksh as well. |
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bash-completion is currently maintained by one person who had it dumped |
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on him by Seemant because he fixed one small bug in it a while ago :) |
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Note that bash-completion is not an integral part of bash, it's an extra |
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for people who want to extend the completion functionality. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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