* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061115 07:31]: > On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 22:15 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > The problem sparking this thread and my initial work on a Policy patch is > > not a problem caused by shells with builtins; it is, in fact, not a > > technical problem at all in the sense that no user has had their system > > broken by the use of test -a/-o or local unless they were intentionally > > running a POSIX compliance test suite as their /bin/sh. It's an > > inconsistency problem between our current Policy document and the manifest > > reality of what's done today in Debian. > > Heck, I'm entirely happy with Manoj's suggestion to drop the whole damn > thing, and simply say "/bin/sh will be bash." If you want simplicity, > that's it!
That is not really simplicity, and also, it would be wrong. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
