[Bash-completion-devel] vncviewer

[Guillaume Rousse]

David Paleino a écrit :
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:05:33 +0100, Freddy Vulto wrote:
> 
>> Do we have a standardized way in bash-completion for selecting alternative
>> completions?
> 
> No :/
> 
> I believe we could do something a _get_alternative() function: in
> Debian/Ubuntu/thelike it would check the symlinks in /etc/alternatives/, in
> other distributions we might ask whether they have something similar (also
> using external tools is good, just need to be sure they're there) -- and then,
> complete "vncviewer" depending on the alternative. something like
> 
> case "$alternative" in:
>  "tightvnc")
>    complete -f _tightvnc vncviewer ;;
>  "vncfoobar")
>    complete -f _vncfoobar vncviewer ;;
> esac
> 
> Obviously, $alternative would be handled by some other code there.
This would only work if the related command is handled by alternative 
system in the linux distribution...In mandrivalinux, we only have tightvnc.

I think it's more generic to have different files in contrib directory, 
and let packagers do the right thing (tm): either not ship files 
irrelevant to their distribution in the bash-completion package, or ship 
it without installing it in /etc/bash_completion.d, etc... In my own 
case, I'd install both files in /usr/share/bash-completion, but only 
symlinks /usr/share/bash-completion/tightvnc to /etc/bash_completion.d.
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