Re: PATCH: completion for a few more coreutils things

[Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote on Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:45 -0700:
> On Oct 11,  1:23am, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> } Subject: Re: PATCH: completion for a few more coreutils things
> }
> } Oliver Kiddle wrote on Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:16 +0200:
> } > Jun T wrote:
> } > > The file Completion/Unix/Command/_expand need be renamed because _expand
> } > > already exists in Completion/Base/Completer/_expand.
> } > 
> } > Oh yes. That'll break things fairly badly, sorry.
> } 
> } Can we make this situation a build error in the future?
> 
> Having two files with the same name is not necessarily an error; the
> intent has been that we might have one file for openSUSE and another
> for Solaris, etc., and the local packager was responsible for putting
> the correct one in the installation (or correct directory in fpath).
> 
> (On the other hand we've never given much configure/install help for
> how to select the right one.)
> 
> Two files with the same name and incompatible #compdef lines is another
> matter, but I don't have any good ideas for determining "incompatible."

"Not in a whitelist of known-good collisions"

I.e., default to erroring out on all collisions except those specifically whitelisted.

Just an idea...

Daniel