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Re: bash should not be essential



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Mark Baker wrote:
> sanvila@unex.es (Santiago Vila Doncel) writes:
> 
> > Yes, bash is essential because we always *need* a POSIX shell. But GNU
> > bash provides *two* of them: /bin/sh and /bin/bash. Only /bin/sh should
> > be essential.
> 
> However, dangling symlinks are not terribly useful, so it would be nice for
> /bin/bash to be around too.

Obviously I didn't mean that /bin/sh is essential as a "dangling symlink".
We could use hard links too. Or symlinks to /bin/the.real.bash.

But I repeat: this is not the point.

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