This one time, at band camp, Nate Duehr said: > > On Sep 21, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Stephen Gran wrote: > > >This is only true if the shebang is /bin/sh - you are of course > >free to > >write maintainer scripts with /bin/bash as the shebang, just as you're > >free to write perl scripts for your maintainer scripts. That being > >said, there is a push for dash to replace bash as the default > >non-interactive shell for lenny. > > Why? Just to be annoyingly different from every other distro > (again)? Or is there a very compelling technical reason? Presumably because its load and run time is less than bash's. The idea, as far as I have followed the discussion, is that this will make boot time faster. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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