On Thu, August 4, 2005 1:38 pm, Eric Blake said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to John Morrison on 8/4/2005 6:25 AM: >> This incorporates the patch (slighly modified) Eric Blake supplied for >> bash completion. There is another way however - bash completion could >> put >> a file in the /etc/profile.d... > > The discussion on this list was that auto-installation in /etc/profile.d, > while possible, would probably elicit complaints along the lines of "why > does bash take so much longer to load now?" (even on my 2.5 GHz machine, > it adds more than a second to the start of every interactive shell). I > guess now we will have to see how many complaints we get of "why doesn't > bash_completion get sourced?"
I wouldn't have thought there would be much/any speed gained doing it this way...? 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) :) But *shrug* :) J.
