Junio C Hamano wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > As an example of all the hacks needed by a real distribution package, > > here's the stuff ArchLinux packagers have to do: > > > > # bash completion > > mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ > > install -m644 ./contrib/completion/git-completion.bash "$pkgdir"/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git > >... > > > > And here's what debian packagers have to do: > > > > # bash completion > > install -d -m0755 '$(GIT)'/etc/bash_completion.d > > install -m0644 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash \ > > '$(GIT)'/etc/bash_completion.d/git > >... > > This is what the latest debian package does: # bash completion install -d -m0755 '$(GIT)'/usr/share/bash-completion/completions install -m0644 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash \ '$(GIT)'/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git ln -s git '$(GIT)'/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/gitk > > If our build system was sane, they wouldn't need so many hacks. > > I do not see how the above two examples lead to that conclusion. > How would it help to blindly install to $(sharedir), It is not blind, it is the location bash-completion uses *by default*, and it's what most (all?) distributions use. > or suggestion to use pkg-info when major distros do not even use one? Which major distros do not ship with the pkg-config? It is part of bash-completion (as it should be part of every decent shared softare component), they all ship it. Do you want me to go on a hunt and list all the distrubionts that ship both? /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git /usr/share/pkgconfig/bash-completion.pc How many distributions would it take for you to accept the facts? > I would understand if the saneness you seek were for distros to > agree on where things should go, or at least agree on how to find > out where things should go. They all gree. > I do not think we are there yet. You are wrong. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html