Re: POSIX shell; bash ash pdksh & /bin/sh
Hi,
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
Santiago> What about making bash a required but non-essential
Santiago> package, in the long term?
I don't like that. There are too many packages that have taken
the implied promise thatbash shall always be on the system. The
essential flag also has meaning for the package maintainence system
and APT.
What do we gain by demoting bash from essential to required?
We immediately create busy work for people to add Bash on the depends
line; we make it easier for people to remove bash and get their
systrems into a broken state (since so many packages depend on bash
in the first place).
I think we shoulkd think long and hard before ever demoting
anything from essential. And have darned good reasons for doing
it. So far, I have not really ehard technical reasons convincing
enough to take the plunge.
manoj
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