[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#722347: Bug#722347: please make bash-completion optional

[Ville Skyttä]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel at aixigo.de> wrote:
> I don't want to disable it for everybody, but just for my own account.

I don't know exactly how the Debian package hooks bash-completion into
user profiles, but if the package uses the generic profile.d
scriptlet, see bash-completion README:

| The profile.d script provides a configuration file hook that can be
| used to prevent loading bash_completion on per user basis when it's
| installed system wide.  To do this, turn off programmable completion
| with "shopt -u progcomp" in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bash_completion
| (~/.config/bash_completion if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set), and turn
| it back on for example in ~/.bashrc if you want to use programmable
| completion for other purposes.