Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes:

> What's the advantage of having it be zsh?  Is zsh faster than dash?  Or
> is the only savings the elimination of the 84k dash binary from /bin?

zsh has also historically been fairly buggy in corner cases as /bin/sh and
requires explicit commands to make it Bourne-compatible.  Autoconf has had
to add a bunch of workarounds for zsh as sh that I'm sure most of our
shell scripts don't have.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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