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Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal



On Mon February 11 2008 06:53:43 Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:33:54AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
> > On *production* Debian systems, saving 30 seconds in a boot
> > which may occur once a year for a kernel security update is
> > not worth a single broken script, nor a single failed backup,
> > nor a single lost data bit.
>
> And what about Debian desktops, booted up once per day?  What about home
> machines?

They can achieve exactly the same speedup if Debian were to adopt
#/bin/sh.minimal and without any wanton breakage of Debian user scripts.

--Mike Bird


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