Bash completion

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Install

root # nano /etc/portage/make.conf
USE="bash-completion"

root # emerge -av bash-completion

You need to add the following to your .bashrc to load bash-completion.

user $ nano ~/.bashrc
source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion.sh

Now you can enable completion for various programs with eselect.

user $ eselect bashcomp list
user $ eselect bashcomp enable gentoo

To enable bash completion for all packages, you can use the following.

root # eselect bashcomp enable --global {0..476}

To disable bash completion for all packages, you can use the following.

root # eselect bashcomp disable --global {0..476}