Re: Please consider adding an option to install dash as /bin/sh in expert mode for beta2
Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:11:25PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> Would it be possible to add an extra page to d-i in expert mode to install
>> dash and configure it as the default /bin/sh?
>> dash uses a debconf prompt to install itself as sh, so there's no big stuff
>> that needs to be done.
>
> The policy around expert mode is that it should not change the
> installation behaviour in itself. Answering default to extra questions
> in expert mode should result in the same installation as normal ones.
>
> As dash already as a debconf questions, the implementation of such
> behaviour is pretty straightforward: d-i should install dash.
>
> If dash is promoted as part of the base system, it will be installed
> without any changes from the d-i team. The other candidate that would
> trigger such installation that I can think of is the "standard" task of
> tasksel.
>
> I think I would object any implementation that would require more
> specific changes in d-i itself.
I fully agree. That isn't d-i business; if dash needs/should be
installed it needs to be done changing Debian base, not using d-i.
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