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.