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Re: POSIX shell\; bash ash pdksh \& /bin/sh



Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> wrote:
>
> 	Then you are indeed missing on the fact that people have been
>  using bash in packages and private scripts since bash has indeed been
>  named essential. 

I am NOT arguing for making bash nonessential or anything like that.  But I
think private scripts is not a valid argument for the status quo since they
will only break if their admins removed the bash package and I don't think
that's anymore likely than someone who runs perl scripts and removing perl.

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