RFC: shell completions policy change?

Jakub Bogusz qboosh at pld-linux.org
Thu Jul 14 16:38:33 CEST 2022


As more and more packages are getting bash/zsh completions, separate
completions packages are becoming useless (harder to find, even not suggested).

My proposal:
1) add %{bash_compdir}, %{zsh_compdir} and maybe %{fish_compdir} (and upper
level) dirs to filesystem package and package bash/zsh[/fish] completion
files just with commands (existing bash-/zsh-[/fish-] packages to be merged and
obsoleted). [preferred]
Fortunately completion files don't have shebangs, which would generate
bash/zsh dependencies.

2) at least add Suggests for completions packages in packages with
commands to complete


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Jakub Bogusz    http://qboosh.pl/


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