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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: [patch]  bash-completion-r1.eclass: add support for pkg-config for migration to the new upstream defined bash-completion directories (prereq for bug 472938)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:00:01
Message-Id: 20921.28129.445590.862067@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: [patch]  bash-completion-r1.eclass: add support for pkg-config for migration to the new upstream defined bash-completion directories (prereq for bug 472938) by Samuli Suominen
1 >>>>> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote:
2
3 > On 13/06/13 07:58, Micha³ Górny wrote:
4 >> Dnia 2013-06-13, o godz. 01:22:11 Samuli Suominen
5 >> <ssuominen@g.o> napisa³(a):
6 >>
7 >>> what $subject says,
8 >>>
9 >>> "add support for pkg-config for migration to the new upstream
10 >>> defined bash-completion directories (prereq for bug 472938)"
11 >>>
12 >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/472938
13 >>>
14 >>> ie. the pkg-config file shipped *now* in portage is a hack from me
15 >>> to postpone this
16 >>>
17 >>> pretty tired so more eyes is cool ;)
18 >>
19 >> You mean http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/85258 ?
20 >>
21 >> I think you've got to convince ulm in the first place.
22
23 > His concerns was actually already covered by the first post and the
24 > linked bug:
25
26 > This is required for smooth migration path from old to new
27 > directories. Back when the old thread happened, there was only one
28 > possible value for completions dir, now there is two. And nothing
29 > prevents upstream adding/changing the values in the .pc file yet
30 > again for next release, this should be dynamic -- just like
31 > $(get_udevdir), $(get_libdir) etc.
32
33 Nothing is covered. If you change the installation dir for the
34 completion modules, then eselect bashcomp won't be able to find them
35 any more. So you need a transition plan.
36
37 Ulrich