Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)
* Giacomo A. Catenazzi:
> but policy recommend not to use bash features on scripts (10.3),
> and the availability of a POSIX-shell (with few extension) is
> already provided by policy (still 10.3), thus no need to add
> package dependencies.
"When in doubt, use /bin/bash" isn't really a recommendation not to
use bash, is it?
> Apart of install scripts (which IMHO should be moved when possible
> to dash, for efficiency reason), I don't think there are so much
> shell scripts (or better: a large number but not a huge number),
> and some of such scripts really need to be run with dash for
> efficiency.
Wouldn't it be better to spend the time on speeding up bash (in
theory; I don't want to ask other people what to do with their spare
time)?
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