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Re: how to make Debian less fragile (long and philosophical)



> > sash is not a posix sh.

On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 04:56:20PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> While I agree that this is true, I'm not sure what it has to do
> with making the tools work. Is it missing features required by the
> installation process, and dpkg?
>
> I admit I have never tried to use sash as /bin/sh, so my ignorance is
> unbounded. Can your releave me of some of it? (my ignorance that is)

It's been quite some time since I looked at this issue, so no -- I
don't have any specific examples.

However, simplicity is a design goal of sash, while full posix support
is not.

-- 
Raul


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