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Re: [UPLOAD] base-file 3.6-1
On Thu, August 4, 2005 1:38 pm, Eric Blake said:
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> According to John Morrison on 8/4/2005 6:25 AM:
>> This incorporates the patch (slighly modified) Eric Blake supplied for
>> bash completion. There is another way however - bash completion could
>> put
>> a file in the /etc/profile.d...
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> The discussion on this list was that auto-installation in /etc/profile.d,
> while possible, would probably elicit complaints along the lines of "why
> does bash take so much longer to load now?" (even on my 2.5 GHz machine,
> it adds more than a second to the start of every interactive shell). I
> guess now we will have to see how many complaints we get of "why doesn't
> bash_completion get sourced?"
I wouldn't have thought there would be much/any speed gained doing it this
way...?
If somebody installs bash_completion then they shouldn't have a problem
with something taking longer, if they do, they should uninstall it
(removing the /etc/profile.d/ file) :)
But *shrug* :)
J.