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Re: dash as default /bin/sh and bashisms-free archive RGs



On Apr 12, Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> wrote:

> * Dash as default /bin/sh
This is good.

> * Bashisms-free archive
This is useless. You are basically proposing to remove every usage of
"local" and a few other directives for no good reason but at a huge cost.

> needed to support dash as /bin/sh. The pourpose of this goal is to let people 
> use whatever shell interpreter that complies with policy as /bin/sh without 
> any breakage other than those that result from bugs in the interpreter 
> itself.
And what is the purpose of this, exactly? The only shell which does not
support these directives is posh, which was created specifically with
the purpose of not supporting them and has no real world usage.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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