Michał Górny posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:03:03 +0100 as excerpted: > Dnia 2014-11-11, o godz. 09:53:58 Marc Schiffbauer <msch...@gentoo.org> > napisał(a): > >> * Michał Górny schrieb am 10.11.14 um 22:18 Uhr: >> >Hello, developers. >> > >> >I'm planning to commit this news item before >=2.1-r90 goes stable. >> >I have rewritten the message to be more user-oriented like Rich >> >suggested (big thanks to you!) and added a paragraph about loading >> >bashcomp in bashrc. >> > >> >Please review. >> >> Looks good to me, but to remove "stale symlinks" you need to add the -L >> option to find. Or write just "symlinks", because like this it will >> remove *all* symlinks. > > Well, the meaning was 'all symlinks since they are stale now'. I will > try to reword it.
Note that some users (including me) have symlinks in /etc/bash_completion.d/ that point to their own completions in /usr/local/share/bash_completion/ or the like. Now I don't claim to know much about creating completions, but for instance, many of my completions were for emerge stubs (ea for emerge --ask, etc), so I was able to simply source the gentoo completion in my own, then use emerge's completion function for my stubs. With this update I had to figure out enough about completions to figure out how to update mine, and I've already done so. But, the symlinks pointing to my completions in /usr/local are most assuredly *NOT* stale, neither will remerging anything make them so. So I don't want to remove those symlinks, or I'd lose the connection to my own completions (presuming the normal bash completion doesn't look in /usr/local/share/bash_completion for them... I never claimed I to be a bash-completion wizard, only to have hacked up something that seems to work, and I want it to STAY working). So if indeed all installed symlinks should be stale at that point, then the suggested -L -type l -delete would be a good change, as it wouldn't remove any non-stale symlinks users had put there themselves. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
