Re: meson: Installing completions

> One of the questions is whether we gain a lot by making this an option.
> If packagers have to manually adapt the location they could just as well
> copy the file by hand as there is no build step involved in the first
> place. I also think that for Bash and zsh the locations are somewhat
> stable across distros these days, so ideally we could just build on that
> and not even provide an option in the first place?
> 
> I'm mostly trying to avoid to eventually end up with tons of build
> options. Ideally, we should just do the right thing and install the
> completion scripts into the correct location in the specified prefix.
> 
> At least if we can get away with it. It seems like the default location
> would work alright for you on Fedora, and I assume that it would work
> alright for most of the other distros. So I'd refrain from introducing
> an option now, but if we eventually figure out that this is problematic
> on some distro then we can still introduce the option at a later point
> in time.

>> For reference, here are the locations for bash, fish, and
>> zsh which Fedora uses.  This might be helpful in determining
>> reasonable defaults (after comparing to other distributions,
>> of course):
>> 
>>     bash /usr/share/bash-completion/completions
>>     fish /usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
>>     zsh  /usr/share/zsh/site-functions
> 
> We don't have completions for the Fish shell, right? Just making sure
> that I don't miss the obvious.