Re: Bug#38544: Gettext solution (Was: Re: gettext packages)
> I for one do not think it is wise to convert every /bin/sh script into
> /bin/bash just for make it i18n.
>
> Remember that there are a lot of people who likes to make /bin/sh
> a symlink to ash (which aims for POSIX compliance). If we start making
> a lot of shell scripts /bin/bash, even if bash is currently essential,
> we will lose the benefits given by a smaller shell as /bin/sh.
That's a very good point. In which case, let's aim to split the
gettext package ;)
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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