Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:47:07AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 05:21:45 schrieb Raphael Geissert:
> > I just noticed I forgot to say something:
> > > What won't change:
> > > * Bash will still be used as the default interactive shells for users
> >
> > * the sh symlink won't be modified on existing installations
>
> So that it will be even more strange that a script with bashisms works on some
> Debian Squeeze systems but not on others? Yeah, great idea.
> And so that all users that upgrade do not benefit from the goal of this change?
> Even better.
> I usually don't like those not-on-upgrade exceptions.
I'd say if /bin/sh points to the current default (/bin/bash), then it
should be modified. OTOH, if it was modified locally by the admin to
point somewhere else, leave it alone.
Mike
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