Re: [UPLOAD] base-file 3.6-1

["John Morrison" <john at morrison dot mine dot nu>]

On Thu, August 4, 2005 2:08 pm, Eric Blake said:
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> According to John Morrison on 8/4/2005 6:52 AM:
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>> I wouldn't have thought there would be much/any speed gained doing it
>> this
>> way...?
>
> There's no speed difference, whether bash_completion is sourced by
> /etc/profile.d/completion.sh or by ~/.bashrc.  The difference is that
> sourced by ~/.bashrc, the user explicitly turned it on, so they are aware
> that they caused the delay; plus multiple users sharing a machine can
> independently decide whether or not they want to take the delay.  But with
> /etc/profile.d, the user has no choice; bash_completion WILL be sourced,
> and cause the delay.  I'm afraid there are too many people who blindly
> install every package without realizing the implications, but I'm willing
> for the next release of bash-completion to use /etc/profile.d if there are
> enough complaints of why the user has to edit ~/.bashrc in addition to
> installing bash-completion.  (I guess if I ever do add an /etc/profild.d
> hook, I'd have to make sure bash_completion is idempotent, so that
> sourcing it the second time is a no-op, rather than doubling the delay of
> users that already edited their ~/.bashrc.)
>
>>
>> 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) :)
>
> Removing the /etc/profile.d file is a partial solution, but then cygcheck
> would report the bash-completion package is incomplete.

Humm, no, I ment uninstalling the package would remove the file :)

Not to worry anyway - works done :)

J.