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Re: redesigning the debian installer



Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> I would suggest zsh. It is much smaller than bash but has 99% of the features.
> It is has also readline editing, completion, history, etc. for interactive use.
> In my opinion ash lacks many useful features, for example variable expansion.
> My debian installer was written in zsh and I found it very good.

I'm a big zsh fan, but it's way too big:

-rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         351k Sep 11 00:42 /usr/bin/zsh*

Anyway, we don't need any of its special features in the installer.

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