Bug 75384

Summary:	[bash-completion] Optional RDEPEND on zsh
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tom Martin (RETIRED) <slarti>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Shell Tools project <shell-tools>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2003/msg00046.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tom Martin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-22 16:43:15 UTC

The bashcompinit function has been installed with zsh for just under a year. I think it would be worthwile (in spite of what Ciaran says) to use a || RDEPEND on zsh in bash-completion, and to provide an "if has_version ; then ; einfo ; fi" block for it in the pkg_postinst().

No version needs to be specified in the dependency; all zsh versions in the tree include bashcompinit.

The einfo could look something like this:

"If you are interested in using the provided bash completion functions with zsh, valuable tips on the effective use of bashcompinit are available:

http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2003/msg00046.html
http://zshwiki.org/ZshSwitchingTo"

Thanks.

Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-12-22 17:00:30 UTC

I didn't say it was a bad idea, I said having a USE flag for it would be a bad idea.

Comment 2 Tom Martin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-25 04:42:51 UTC

Thanks Aaron.