Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-08-12

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-08-03, o godz. 07:18:42
Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> napisał(a):

>
> On 02/08/14 12:23, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > El mar, 29-07-2014 a las 21:22 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
> >> Dnia 2014-07-29, o godz. 14:06:18
> >> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> napisał(a):
> >>
> >>> Would like to ask for action about how to finally handle bash-completion
> >>> on Gentoo. Looks like we are using a different approach as upstream to
> >>> handle completions now, there was a try (one year ago) to try to switch
> >>> to upstream style but seems that the revision implementing that was
> >>> later dropped due some arguments.
> >> Just to be clear, the arguments were not due to new bash-completion
> >> itself but due to lack of completeness and documentation. If I recall
> >> correctly, it was reverted simply because nobody was willing to do
> >> the remaining work and we had no real documentation for the new system.
> >> In other words, users upgraded, completions stopped working and didn't
> >> know why or how to proceed.
> >>
> >> I don't know if the Council needs to say anything here. It's just
> >> a matter of doing the work.
> >>
> > Yeah, I have seen new comments in relevant bug report and looks like
> > that was the case. Sorry for the misunderstanding. There is no need to
> > include it in agenda then
>
> So I guess it's more about the eselect module, and allowing it to move
> specific
> bash-completion files to temporary directory, making them out-of-scope for
> the bash-completion autoloader (yes, there is an autoloader) that mimics
> the outcome of putting specific bash-completion files to INSTALL_MASK

Wouldn't it be better to generate exclude commands in bashrc?



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Best regards,
Michał Górny