On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 01:29:39PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > 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. This is especially true on embedded and older systems. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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