Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 05:10:59PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> 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.
Do you really think that the latter warrants a question? Admins can set
their own policies by wrapping adduser; derivers can set their own policies
by modifying the adduser package.
> 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.
Has anyone actually said in this thread that "I'm developing an embedded
system and I want the user shell to be dash"? dash is a terrible user
shell, after all.
Otherwise, yes, these are all valid cases, but I don't think that's really
been a point of contention here; the only contention has been:
- which configuration is the default?
- do we need to generalize beyond dash and bash to meet these use cases?
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