removing bash_completion (and zsh_completion) variants

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Tue Apr 16 07:25:15 PDT 2013


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:53:54AM -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> Would you suggest just adding the completion file to the port (and
> removing the dependency the variant has on bash-completion, and via
> bash-completion the bash port)?

Yes.

> For subversion, at least, the completion stuff is in a variant to not
> require everyone who wants subversion to install macports bash.

It seems to me most users who want bash completion will try to get it by
installing the bash_completion port, not by adding a variant on some
port nowadays (especially since it requires manual reconfiguration of
your shell to be macports bash).

-- 
Clemens Lang



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