[systemd-devel] [PATCH] bash-completion: split completions and move to new location

[Kay Sievers]

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> since this has been on the TODO list and Kay has poked me about this,
> I went ahead and made the bash completion compatible with the new
> scheme. I.e. move the files to /usr/share/bash-completions/completions
> and make them available under the binary's name.
> I decided to split up the large completion file instead of using symlinks.
> The duplication is minimal and by splitting up, the files become much
> more readable and we only need to actually install those bits which
> are enabled via --config.

Nice job! Commit it.

I'm happy that we leave /etc alone with that. Packages should not
install any static data there these days.

> For now I've hard-coded
> bashcompletiondir=$(data)/bash-completion/completions which I think is
> good enough.

Needs to be $(datadir), I guess. Works fine for me otherwise.

> That said, I can prep a follow-up patch, which makes that configurable
> and uses "pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion".
> Pretty much
> what we do for --with-dbus*dir.
>
> Let me know if you also want the latter bits.

Sounds good to me.

Thanks a lot,
Kay