Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:31:04AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I think you are not going far enough. Why should I have dash on > the system when my default shell is posh? or (gasp) zsh? posh (or "strict POSIX" in general) is simply not practical, and zsh is even more bloated than bash. But this was discussed to death... > I think one of the objections here is that we ought to have a > more generic approach that allows shells other than dash/bash to be the > default shell, and that the vendor not make the choice. And a possible response to such an objection that the bash->dash transition is difficult enough. Do this specific transition first, and revisit the generalization only after the lessons from the bash->dash transition have been learned. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org