Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL
Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-08-02 16:55 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> FWIW, removing bash from the list of essential packages (replacing it by
>> dash) is one of the release goals for squeeze [1].
>
> Not really, the goal for squeeze is to install dash as /bin/sh by
> default. Making bash non-essential is a different (and harder) task.
Thanks for clarification. I probably didn't follow the relevant
debian-develop threads carefully enough ;-)
>> It might be more worthwhile for all of us, if you help debian to
>> achieve the goal instead of yet another fork. ;-)
>
> This will take at least one more release cycle, more likely two, if it
> is ever accomplished. It is very hard to remove functionality from the
> set of essential packages.
So probably still better to help speed up that process instead of forking.
Cheers,
Johannes
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