Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:53:19 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> > It is not an alternative:
> > - It is ugly
> > - it is not on root partition
> >
> > The ugly part it is IMHO the most important part.
>
> Ugliness is relative. I have no problem with printf.
>
While I have no problem with printf, I also think mixing printf and echo
is ugly, and I'm not at all convinced by the arguments to discourage
echo -n or echo in general. I also think making different
recommendations based on type of script (init scripts vs maintainer
scripts vs whatever else) is a very, very bad idea.
Cheers,
Julien
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