On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 12:07:33AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > This is a disservice to our users. If they read Policy, they will be > > > hoodwinked into thinking that they can use a POSIX shell (with echo > > > exception) as /bin/sh. > > Then policy should be updated. > > Policy should document what is current, rather than > > what is ideal. > Oh come on, just because some fool put command -v in a package that > generates postinst scripts for a few hundred packages without making > sure it was in POSIX is no reason to change policy. Considering we don't actually have access to the POSIX /bin/sh spec, and that the SUSv2 spec we do have access to supports command -v, that's a bit harsh. Is SUSv3 available anywhere? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!'' -- http://www.angryflower.com/vegeta.gif
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