removing bash_completion (and zsh_completion) variants

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Apr 16 23:42:48 PDT 2013


On 2013-4-17 05:24 , Christoph Iserlohn wrote:
> Am 16.04.13 01:05, schrieb Clemens Lang:
>> Always installing the completion files
> npm and git-core do that already. The bash_completion variant only adds an
> explicit dependency (path-style) on bash_completion.

Variants that only add a runtime dependency aren't a great idea. A
variant like this doesn't actually change anything about the port
itself. The installed files are exactly the same as they would be
without the variant, which means you unnecessarily miss out on using an
archive.

In some other package managers this would be in 'suggests' rather than
being a dependency. Perhaps some notes mentioning that the port installs
a completion file could serve a similar purpose?

- Josh


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