* Siggy Brentrup <deb...@psycho.i21k.de> [2009 Aug 03 01:45 -0500]: Thanks for your explanation.
> IMHO it was a fault to make bash essential in the early days of Debian > which nobody saw - with dash not yet available and shell functionality > required. Indeed, however, had a choice been made to keep scripts POSIX compliant, the use of Bash wouldn't have been an issue. In other words, running Bash as a POSIX compliant shell would have allowed the use of another POSIX compliant shell. > Hoping this lengthy discourse answers your questions Yes, thanks. Sometime after posting my message it dawned on me that POSIX compliant startup scripts and performance are the drivers of this effort. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org