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Re: Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh



On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 09:31:00PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
> Were you not around for the libc5->libc6 disaster?

I was. I was even working for Debian when we switched from libc4 to libc5.

> The more libraries /bin/sh depends on, the more packages need to be involved
> in carefully ochestrated upgrades to avoid messing up dselect, dpkg, apt, etc.

That's correct. I have also experienced having bash and a not compatible
libreadline on my machine. But I still was able to get into it start ftp,
download the correct packages and install them. This is not what I call
destroying a system. Did you ever manage to destroy your C library? That's
what I call destroying your system.

Michael
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Dr. Michael Meskes		meskes@online-club.de, meskes@debian.org
Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire!	Use Debian GNU/Linux! 


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