Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX
On 2024-02-14 19:46:58 +0100, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> On Wed, 2024-02-14 at 18:20 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > POSIX says:
> >
> > SHELL This variable shall represent a pathname of the user's
> > preferred command language interpreter. If this interpreter
> > does not conform to the Shell Command Language in XCU
> > Chapter 2 (on page 2345), utilities may behave differently
> > from those described in POSIX.1-2017.
> >
> > There is no requirement to match one of the /etc/shells pathnames.
>
> I have hopefully good news for you! You can set the SHELL variable
> yourself to your preferred value. For example:
>
> export SHELL=/home/user/.bin/the-best-shell-of-all
>
> (The details might vary depending on the shell you are currently in.)
> usrmerge does not affect this at all.
This is invalid. See
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=817168
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