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    So, is it better to treat two directory names matching iff they are
    precisely equal?  If so, I'd like to work on it.

If we change the meaning of directory names in
`completion-ignored-extensions' so that they are not extensions, the
name would no longer make sense.  So I think it is better to add
a new variable `completion-ignored-names'.  Those names would be
checked for an exact match.

We should not install this until after the release, but you could
write it now.