Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

>>"Clint" == Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> writes:

 >> Codify what, please? I personally use which, since it is
 >> provided by am essential package, and I can live with it eing an
 >> external program, and missing aliases. People can also use POSIX type

 Clint> You don't have that with zsh, since which is a builtin.


	I don't have what? which is present, either as a builtin, or
 provided by an essential package. What exactly do I not have?

 >> (umm, does zsh have type?). Why does this have to be codified? When

 Clint> zsh has type as a builtin, though it isn't POSIX either.

	Oh? How is it not POSIX? 

 >> do we want to stop codifying every little thing? 

 Clint> When there are no more problems?

	Then we should stop right here, since that is an impossible goal.

 Clint> There are numerous #!/bin/sh scripts in Debian that are not
 Clint> POSIX-compliant.  One might get the idea, if one were to read
 Clint> Debian's policy documents, that these scripts violate Policy.

	Yes. File bugs. 

 Clint> One might also get the idea, if one were to read the same
 Clint> section, that one could install a POSIX-compliant shell as
 Clint> /bin/sh on one's Debian system, and that one would experience
 Clint> no difficulties in doing so.  Of course, this is a fallacy.

	File bugs. fix things. More documents saying this is wrong
 does not fix any bugs. Policy already talks about POSIX /bin/sh, yet
 another document just adds to the ossification, and solves nothing.

 Clint> And not doing so invites unexpected behaviors.

	Yeah, lefe sucvks, doesn't it? And damn Heisenburg.

	manoj
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