Hello everybody, I've implemented a new revision of bash-completion, which uses debtriggers(5) to load only relevant completions, and symlink them when something touches /usr/bin/, /usr/games/, /usr/sbin/, /sbin/, /bin/, and so on.
For this to work, the completions have been moved out from /etc/ -- they would be in /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/, but /etc/bash_completion.d/ is being kept not to break tons of other packages installing files there. However, I'm writing to get comments about the triggers issue. When a package installs an executable in one of the above directories, bash-completion's postinst removed all symlinks in /etc/bash_completion.d/triggered/, and re-creates them. The speed of such operation varies greatly depending on the installed packages -- on my system, it takes about 10s -- but the shell loading seems much faster too. Is there any objection to bash-completion using triggers to "watch" the aforementioned directories? I have a package ready, and would upload it to experimental before going to unstable. Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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