One thing about this which strikes me as a bit ironic is debian's use of the dash shell, made to be POSIX-compliant, and so causing endless problems for scripts using bash's additional non-POSIX functionality, but not specifying bash explicitly in the shebang line.
On Sat, 2020-09-12 at 16:28 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I think Devuan might want to "put back" POSIX commands Debian has > removed (but provides packages for). See the following thread from > Debian-User: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/09/msg00334.html > > Lennart Poettering has repeatedly and with certainty let us know he has > no use for POSIX. I guess now the Debian project is acting as his proxy > in this matter. > > Did you notice the one guy who said it would be "it would be 'rude' to > impose something wanted by only a part of the users"? > > Personally, if my operating system doesn't come, as a baseline, with > vi, ed, cut, grep, sed, awk, bc, dc, diff, dd, df, du, fg, head, tail, > and the like, then it isn't an OS I'd want to use. The fact that an OS > isn't certified POSIX is no excuse for deliberately leaving out easily > included POSIX programs and features. > > Is it possible for Devuan to "put back" what Debian sabotaged? > > Thanks, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
