On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:59:49AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I was not aware that "sh->dash" was discarded. Or do you mean for > > etch? I agree that it is too late to change it for etch. > > Serious concerns were raised about changing the default due to the risk > of breaking non-portable user scripts: people are likely to have coded
Indeed. sh->dash roots out brekage in just about everywhere, so it is *not* an optimal way to speed a subsystem, because people have a damn good valid reason to not want sh->dash in their system. I have had to submit a number of bugs against upstream makefiles because of bashisms, for example. They creep everywhere. I higly suggest switching the entire Debian-provide initscript farm to #!/bin/dash (or another faster POSIX shell if there is one), instead. That has no drawbacks to the user. Doing so may require changes in dash packaging, though. I'd like to see dash made "essential" before such switch is made. Using *pre*-depends on dash solves the issues purely related to packaging, but is nowhere as resilient as an essential package is, and we are talking about the boot subsystem here. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
