[Bash-completion-devel] [RFC] Completions location

[Guillaume Rousse]

Ville Skyttä a écrit :
>> For the last issue, which is to distribute in a single package, and
>> activate only when needed, I initially attempted to use triggers too.
>> However, we now have 175 various completions in contrib directories,
>> meaning 175 * 2 triggers (installation/uninstallation) to maintain,
>> keeping track of the various mismatch between package names and
>> completion file name. All in all, that's just impossible.
> 
> This is surely a bit (yep, a bit, not a lot) of work, but why would it be 
> impossible?  I haven't packaged post 1.0 bash-completion for Fedora but I do 
> for now intend to continue with the trigger approach.  With a few helper 
> macros I think it's quite manageable, see 
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/bash-completion/devel/bash-
> completion.spec?revision=1.42&view=markup
Interesting. Maybe a bit of lua scripting could help also here.

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