Installing bash-completion by default in F-16

[Petr Sabata]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:54:05PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709647
> 
> I'd like to have bash-completion included in F-16's default install.  In
> my opinion it's in a good enough shape for that already now, and with my
> upstream hat on I expect things to further improve before F-16 is out.
> 
> Why I'm writing here is that I'd like to hear opinions to which
> default-installed comps group should it be added (and set as default
> there) - in my opinion the serious candidates are admin-tools and base.
>  admin-tools doesn't sound right because bash-completion is not really
> an admin tool (unless one considers interactive shell usage as admin
> activity in general), so I'm inclined to add it to base.
> 
> Thoughts?

Why would you include an "optional functionality" (a quote from Packaging
guidelines)  package in the default installation?

I personally don't use bash as my interactive shell and don't really like
the idea of having more bash-related stuff than necessary in my system.

-- 
# Petr Sabata
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