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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...
>
> 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.


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