Installing bash-completion by default in F-16

Alexander Boström abo at root.snowtree.se
Sun Jun 5 14:33:15 UTC 2011


sön 2011-06-05 klockan 15:30 +0200 skrev drago01: 
> 2011/6/5 Alexander Boström <abo at root.snowtree.se>:
> > [...]
> > Consider a hypothetical bash-uncompletion which just blacklists tab
> > completion in those cases where it doesn't make sense but never adds any
> > new completion sources. Should that be installed by default? It would be
> > rather small and light.
> 
> That's makes no sense at all ... as if saving a couple of hundred of
> kb helps anything.
> Any argument based on size here is rather pointless.

I agree. bash-completion is small enough.

Even if all it did was to get rid of bogus completions it would still
offer a better user experience at a small cost so it should be in the
default package set. Now it does more than that.

/abo




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