[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][313601] bash-completion shouldn't provide completions for generic named tools

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Bugs item #313601, was changed at 2012-04-08 18:27 by Vladimir Lomov
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Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Vladimir Lomov (lomov_vl-guest)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: bash-completion shouldn't provide completions for generic named tools 
Distribution: --Distribution-Agnostic--
Originally reported in: None
Milestone: None
Status: Accepted
Original bug number: 


Initial Comment:
Hello,
currently bash-completion provides completion for tool `makepkg' assuming that it is Slackware one, but there is other tool with such name: in Archlinux the package manager, pacman, provides tool `makepkg' and completion for it, see
http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/contrib

I think bash-completion behaves wrongly, it shouldn't provide completion for `makepkg' it is purpose of the "package", in Slackware one would install necessary tool and the package should provide optionally the completion for bash, that's how package `pacman' do in Archlinux.




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Comment By: Vladimir Lomov (lomov_vl-guest)
Date: 2012-04-09 08:31

Message:
IMHO, this is not optimal, is it possible to install `makepkg' completion only when `bash-completion' is built as Slackware package? Something like following: rename `completions/makepkg' to `completions/makepkg.in' and if package is build ("packaged") on Slackware install it as `completions/makepkg' otherwise don't.

P.S. Before posting a bug report I tried to search slackware site (its package browser) and it seems it is defunc; some time ago I used to use Slacware, but decided to switch to Archlinux as more rapidly developed and actively maintained.

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Comment By: Igor Murzov (garik-guest)
Date: 2012-04-09 00:12

Message:
You are probably right. But it's would be hard to merge slackware-related completions into Slackware repositories. I have some rather old patches, that are still not merged in Slackware for unknown reasons, and I'm not sure that completions would be accepted. May be it's easier to remove conflicting completions from Arch's package?


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