Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:20:05PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > But well, one of the ideas is to avoid having such extra stuff deeply
> > tied to the core system, i.e. essential.
> That's it? The time to try to reduce the set of Essential
> packages is to deny entry to new items (like dash), since once the
> package is essential, people (and not just package maintainers) come to
> rely on it. Our user base, in particular, has had 15+ years to rely on
> bash -- and there are loads of user scripts, support systems, cron
> jobs, third part packages -- that need bash.
I think this is addressable by clearly documenting in Policy (where the
handling of Essential packages is defined) that packages which invoke
/bin/dash are required to depend on dash instead of relying on Essential.
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