Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2009-07-23, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
>> In addition all shells supported as defaults would need to be included
>> on CD images. And the selected shell would of course have to be set as
>> the default for new users.
> 
> Strike the "of course".  If I want my users to have zsh as a default
> that's different from the question where I want to point my /bin/sh to.

You're correct of course. If we want to go this way there should be two 
questions: one for the system shell to use and one for the default user 
shell, each with per-arch defaults.

From the discussion there seem to be three groups:
- embedded: want to have only a single, lightweight shell installed for
  both system and users;
- generic: want a fast system shell, but a more powerful shell for users;
- conservative: don't want to run any risk with script incompatibilities
  and thus want to have the same, powerful shell for system and users.

It seems to me all three are valid.