On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:22:58PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:11:52PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Aug 01, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote: > > > It being the smallest and fastest one doesn't really help if you're in a > > > tight environment where you want only one shell to be installed, and you > > > want to use a different one from whatever Debian chose because of other > > > reasons. > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 79956 Jul 21 12:24 /bin/dash* > > > > If 80 KB are a concern then I think you have way more problems than > > wasting disk space because two different POSIX shells are installed. > > There are embedded environments where 80KB is a concern. We're not at > the level yet where we can reasonably support such environments, but > there are people who are trying to change that, and I don't think we > should make it harder for them by setting things up in a way that isn't > strictly necessary, but is the easy way out. > > Note that I'm not saying that we should necessarily support it, then; > only that "it's not useful, so sod it" isn't a very useful argument. The > above is an example of where it would be useful. > > Oh, and it's > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 107K 2007-07-18 14:02 /bin/dash funny, on amd64 it's smaller: ┌─(22:30)──── └[artemis] ll /bin/{bash,dash} -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 769368 2006-12-11 23:28 /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 98936 2007-07-18 11:50 /bin/dash -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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