Hi Vincent,

On Wed, 2024-02-14 at 18:20 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> POSIX says:
> 
>   SHELL   This variable shall represent a pathname of the user's
>           preferred command language interpreter. If this interpreter
>           does not conform to the Shell Command Language in XCU
>           Chapter 2 (on page 2345), utilities may behave differently
>           from those described in POSIX.1-2017.
> 
> There is no requirement to match one of the /etc/shells pathnames.

I have hopefully good news for you! You can set the SHELL variable
yourself to your preferred value. For example:

export SHELL=/home/user/.bin/the-best-shell-of-all

(The details might vary depending on the shell you are currently in.)
usrmerge does not affect this at all.

Ansgar


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