On May 19, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote: > Since bash does enable some features that are not specified in POSIX, > even when called as /bin/sh, I don't see what the problem would be of > installing "something else" as our default /bin/sh (ignoring the fact That it would break all these non-portable scripts (do you really suggest that our users should debug bashisms in other people's autoconf scripts?). > that only bash is Essential: yes for a second). It would greatly improve > portability of said non-Debian scripts. I doubt that the rest of the world would notice, at least for the first few years, and we can be sure that it would greatly raise frustration in our users. -- ciao, Marco
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