diff --git a/patterns-base.changes b/patterns-base.changes
index ec1db00..e77527c 100644
--- a/patterns-base.changes
+++ b/patterns-base.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr  3 10:58:13 UTC 2018 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Recommend bash-completion by the base system (not minimal_base):
+  most users will expect it to be present and until recently, it
+  was in a recommended chain of systemd (boo#1087710).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Mar 28 13:04:28 UTC 2018 - fbui@suse.com
 
diff --git a/patterns-base.spec b/patterns-base.spec
index 554f9c7..61a37e1 100644
--- a/patterns-base.spec
+++ b/patterns-base.spec
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ Requires:       rpm
 Requires:       shadow
 Requires:       util-linux
 Requires:       which
+Recommends:     bash-completion
 Recommends:     ca-certificates-mozilla
 %ifarch ppc
 Recommends:     libbspe