Installing bash-completion by default in F-16

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 14:04:59 UTC 2011


On 1 Jun 2011 21:54, "Ville Skyttä" <ville.skytta at iki.fi> 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?

Things like bash completion have massive performance implications on network
and other slower file systems esp if its used for home directories. It
certainly shouldn't be in base.

Peter
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