Description of problem:

Type:   urpmi apache[TAB]

Bash completion correctly shows:
    Display all 174 possibilities? (y or n)

BUT, this takes 8 seconds!. 


Digging a little further, it's the function:
   _urpmi_packages()
within  /etc/bash_completion.d/urpmi
which is slow.

However, the underlying:
  urpmq --list 
is still very quick, timed at 0.15 second.



I know urpmi wasn't always this slow: I'm doing this on an core i7 2700 machine, with 16 GB RAM and SSDs...so it really shouldn't be this slow!
For comparison, "apt-get install apache[TAB]" runs in ~ 0.5 secs on an old laptop).