zsh option completion broken by uutils-coreutils override [NixOS 25.05]

NOTES.md

Here is the change in my config...

 {
   home.packages = with pkgs; [
-    uutils-coreutils
+    (uutils-coreutils.override { prefix = ""; })
   ];
 }

with override, any newly started shell will fail to tab complete.

it always prints these options; it does not matter what the command is.

❯ git -<TAB>
---- option
--help     -h  -- Print help
--initial  -i  -- do not convert tabs after non blanks
--no-utf8  -U  -- interpret input file as 8-bit ASCII rather than UTF-8
--tabs     -t  -- have tabs N characters apart, not 8 or use comma separated list of explicit tab positions
--version  -V  -- Print version

with the override removed, it completes correctly for all commands, including uutils-* commands.

The text seems to come from uutils version of expand...

❯ /nix/store/mpydakrn48703wlwc4jgx4wp35p0559c-uutils-coreutils-0.0.30/bin/expand --help
Convert tabs in each `FILE` to spaces, writing to standard output.
With no `FILE`, or when `FILE` is `-`, read standard input.

Usage: /nix/store/mpydakrn48703wlwc4jgx4wp35p0559c-uutils-coreutils-0.0.30/bin/expand [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Options:
  -i, --initial         do not convert tabs after non blanks
  -t, --tabs <N, LIST>  have tabs N characters apart, not 8 or use comma separated list of explicit tab positions
  -U, --no-utf8         interpret input file as 8-bit ASCII rather than UTF-8
  -h, --help            Print help
  -V, --version         Print version

zsh tab completion script must be using expand in a slightly different way, then getting the error from expand and thinking it's the help output from the tool.

looks like the issue was in my old zsh config that i have been pulling into my nix-generated config via programs.zsh.initExtraBeforeCompInit.

this fixes my issue.

- zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand _complete _match _prefix _approximate _list

I wrote this old tab completion by hand 10 years ago, maybe it's time to let go.