Santiago M. Mola a écrit : > Hi all, > > Based on the current aproach on Gentoo and on comments from other > distros, I'd like to propose a new directory layout for bash-completion. > > El lun, 12-01-2009 a las 23:55 +0100, Guillaume Rousse escribió: >> We also have a slightly initialisation system, with a file >> in /etc/profile.d sourcing a system-wide /etc/sysconfig/bash-completion >> configuration file, then a ~/.bash-completion to set up relevant >> options. This let sysadmin configure bash completion globally, or not, >> while still allowing individual users to do it in the last case. > > In Gentoo, we install all bash-completion modules > to /usr/share/bash-completion/. > > Modules are enabled system-wide when they're symlinked > from /etc/bash_completion.d/ and users can enable extra modules creating > symlinks in ~/.bash_completion.d/. > > We have a Gentoo-specific tool for handling these symlinks, but I guess > each distro would take its own aproach, which could be a) providing a > configuration interface, b) enabling all modules by default (like some > already do), c) let the user do it himself. > > I think installing modules to /usr/share/bash-completion is more > consistent than the current state (I don't think bash-completion modules > can be considered anything near to configuration files). > > Also, this provides more flexibility for distros and users. And it seems > it's needed since enabling/disabling modules system and user wide is a > quite common demanded feature. > > With respect backwards compatibility, there's not too much to say: if > someone installs a module directly to /etc/bash_completion.d, it'll > obviously work. > > Thoughts? This is quite similar to how munin plugins works, and it's fare more compliant with FHS. It's also more resource-savy to evualuate the availability of a command (hence the usefulness of its completion function) at installation time, not each time a new shell is started.
I guess you still keep generic functions, as well as logic for sourcing individual completion files, in /etc/bash_completion ? -- Guillaume Rousse Service des Moyens Informatiques INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France Parc Orsay Université, 4 rue J. Monod 91893 Orsay Cedex France Tel: 01 69 35 69 62 _______________________________________________ Bash-completion-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/bash-completion-devel
