On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:40:20 +0000 Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 07:12 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Except it won't, because ebuilds require bash regardless of which > > package manager is being used. If you want to change that you'll > > have to rewrite the entire tree. > > Az once said near enough the same thing about baselayout. And that's > your view, your entitled to it, but it is not my view. Change a little > bit here, a little bit there. Slowly does it.
It's not a view. It's a simple fact. > Yes, I know that a fair chunk of the tree will need a re-write, just > in the same way that the init scripts got a re-write. It will take > time, it will not happen magically over night. To think overwise is > foolish :) How many lines of code are in baselayout? How many in the tree? Pushing for non-bash for ebuilds is pointless. The cost of using bash is tiny; the cost of not using bash is huge. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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