On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:57:53AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes: > > > Okay, but that's not an argument. What would be the point for the user > > to change /bin/sh if Debian has already chosen the fastest and smallest > > one ? > > Because Debian thinks that the smallest and fastest one is dash, but the > user wants to run a giant pile of tens of thousands of lines of shell > scripts that are internal to their organization, are full of bashisms, > that the user isn't supposed to be changing, and which all use /bin/sh. Then he'll be able to move /bin/sh symlink on bash if he wants to. Or enhance dash to support the very few bashisms that are often used. (echo -e, the {a,b,c} globbing and [[ ]], I checked, those three are *trivial* to implement). -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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