[pacman-dev] [PATCH] bash_completion: remove absolute utility paths again

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca> wrote:
> The location of the used utilities may and does differ between various
> distributions and therefore absolute paths do not work well. Since the
> main purpose of its introduction was to avoid side-effects caused by
> aliases, it is sufficient to disable possible aliases temporarily by
> preceding the commands with a backslash.

Holy crap, that works? Where did you find this trick?