Re: a couple of completion questions

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Clint Adams wrote:

> Included at the bottom of this message is my current working copy of _dpkg.
> 
> Firstly, is there a simple way to change the _arguments for
> remove|purge|status|listfiles in the state switch to use -A
> without factoring out each case and adding the appropriate
> options?

Sorry, I don't understand... what do you want to do?

> My second question has now been invalidated, so I'll substitute
> these two thoughts: it would be nice if -iR engaged the state engine
> in the same way -i -R or -R -i does;

If I understand you correctly here, than that's what we are discussing 
currently in that rpm-thread. I hope to be able to work on this soon.

> and also, the call to _arguments
> used in the state switch for install/record_avail does not behave
> as described in zshcompsys(1), though I'm taking advantage of that.

I know nothing about dpkg and friends. In which way does it behave
differently from what's documented and how do you make use of it
(i.e.: is there something wrong? or only documented in the wrong way?
or should have both what it's doing and what's documented?)?

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de