Re: /bin/sh diversions

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le mercredi 01 août 2007 à 14:18 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:49:57PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mercredi 01 août 2007 à 22:22 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit :
> > > There are embedded environments where 80KB is a concern.
> 
> > I fail to see why you'd want to install any other shell than the
> > smallest one on such an environment.
> 
> Well, bash is essential, so you have to have that one installed or else you
> have to scan all your packages for uses of bash and convert them.

I guess the idea behind making dash the default /bin/sh is not only to
increase speed but also, in the end, to downgrade bash's priority.

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