/usrmove? -> about the future

[Ville Skyttä]

On 2012-02-16 05:34, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> 2) The bash-completions add-on. Which does all kinds of wonderful
> things which when they work is really nice.. it will autocomplete
> hostnames if you type ssh f<tab>, it will autocomplete depending on
> the command you typed the most obvious items... etc etc. It also can
> really really slow you down at times or cause issues with just normal
> bash completion. A bad autocomplete can cause you to sit 3-4 minutes
> as DNS or other things time out.

People tend to bring this up every now and then but fail to be specific
exactly what happened so it's quite difficult for anyone to fix things.
 Nevertheless, a lot of things have improved in bash-completion recently
and semi-recently (especially the dynamically loaded version in F-17+),
including suppression of unnecessary network accesses by default.  But
some network accesses intentionally remain, for example remote filename
completion for scp and rsync.