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On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> why are we checking either place?  It's entirely possible that my
> dedicated build farm doesn't have any bash completion mechanisms
> installed, even if my development system does.

Yes, the concept of auto-detection is "broken". But it's useful as a
default, for people doing `make && make install` on their dev
machines. Packagers should always set these types of flags explicitly,
as with autotools.