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



* Dale Scheetz said:

> > > Can anyone think of a reason this would not be adequate?
> > 
> > sash is not a posix sh.
> 
> 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)
Well, it would break (an rough estimate - I might, and probably am, wrong)
some 50% of shell scripts you use everyday.

marek


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