On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 05:22:06PM +0000, 45mg wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
[...]
> 
> On Guix, we have:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> # guix shell pkg-config bash-completion
> 
> [user@guix1 ]$ pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion
> /gnu/store/5774mb64pqw93fpcchndiiq9fh80ngga-bash-completion-2.11/share/bash-completion/completions
> 
> [user@guix1 ]$ pkg-config --variable=compatdir bash-completion
> /gnu/store/5774mb64pqw93fpcchndiiq9fh80ngga-bash-completion-2.11/etc/bash_completion.d
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> So, it looks like we should ideally be installing into
> share/bash-completion/completions everywhere. etc/bash_completion.d will
> also work, but the former is preferred because completions will be
> loaded on-demand rather than eagerly. There are currently dozens of
> packages using the latter; maybe some of them have a reason to
> eager-load their completions.

I have the following diff I think will be useful.  Let me know what you
think.  We shouldn't need to duplicate the paths in all the packages.

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