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Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?



On Tue, Apr  5, 2011 at 09:41:24 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:14:12PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> (04/04/2011):
> > > The most obvious reason to not degrade bash to Priority: important
> > > is obviously that one needs to declare a dependency on bash when
> > > it's used in a package. Which means quite some packages will need to
> > > be changed.
> 
> > What is the most obvious reason to degrade bash to Priority: important?
> 
> > (I can understand shell maintainers would like to get bash out of
> > their way, but how many (other) people really want to get rid of it?)
> 
> Anybody doing development for embedded systems. :)
> 
Which of those people don't also want to get rid of dash and coreutils
and use busybox instead?

Cheers,
Julien


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