Re: Question about "Depends: bash"
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:58:58 +0100
Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> wrote:
> Am 2006-11-19 13:43:29, schrieb Jim Crilly:
> > I would say it's your users that have the problem, bash is "Essential: yes"
> > and "Priority: required" so removing it is unsupported.
>
> I know, but even on this list I have read several times
> that peoples have removed this huge Shell.
Huge?
Installed-Size: 1848
I would not call that huge (unless you are building an embedded system, but that is a whole different kettle of fish).
But if they are concerned about the memory footprint of the shell used by default as /bin/sh, that is another matter. They can always install dash and symlink /bin/sh to it. This will not break scripts that use bash (unless they call bash as #!/bin/sh, but if they do, that's a bug in the script).
Ben
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