On 08/26/2014 06:51, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, developers and users. > > I would like to champion the goal of bringing bash-completion-2.1-r1 to > Gentoo. As far as I can see, nobody's been working on this since > the first failed attempt has been reverted. > > Firstly, I would like to describe the differences between the old > and the new system. > > > The old system > -------------- > > compatdir = /etc/bash_completion.d > oldcompdir = /usr/share/bash-completion > > 1. Completions and other completion-like files are installed > in $oldcompdir. > > 2. On start, bash sources all files from $compatdir, explicitly > enabling completions inside them. > > 3. 'eselect bashcomp' enables completions through linking files > from $oldcompdir to $compatdir. > > > What's wrong with the old system? > --------------------------------- > > Well, the major issue with the old system is that for completion to > work, it needs to loaded at start of bash. The more completions you > enable, the more files bash needs to source and the more memory > consumed. > > If you enable all completions by default, bash would need to load a lot > of functions, most of them not even used during the session. > > > The new system > -------------- > > completionsdir = /usr/share/bash-completion/completions > [snip]
I take it systems with /usr mounted separately won't be affected by this change? Do we need to retain the /etc/bash_completion.d compatdir in any form? -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS ku...@gentoo.org 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
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