diff -up bash-completion-1.3/bash_completion.orig bash-completion-1.3/bash_completion
--- bash-completion-1.3/bash_completion.orig	2011-02-06 21:16:00.000000000 +0200
+++ bash-completion-1.3/bash_completion	2011-04-12 21:34:55.527355045 +0300
@@ -171,7 +171,11 @@ have()
     unset -v have
     # Completions for system administrator commands are installed as well in
     # case completion is attempted via `sudo command ...'.
-    PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin type $1 &>/dev/null &&
+    # In this packaged setup we don't need to do the availability test below
+    # because only completions for commands that are actually available should
+    # be in /etc/bash_completion.d anyway; not doing the test improves our load
+    # time significantly.
+    #PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin type $1 &>/dev/null &&
     have="yes"
 }