On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 09:51 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 23:55 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > > > > Instead of focusing and hammering again and again on /bin/sh, why not > > > > instead ask maintainers to do #!/bin/dash? > > > > > > Because the correct is #!/bin/sh and not to be tied on particular shell. > > > > I can't tell what you mean. There is nothing wrong with using > > #!/bin/dash if that's what the maintainer wants to specify. > > And if the system does not have dash installed? And if the scrpts work > fine with the /bin/sh of his choice?
Obviously if you #!/bin/dash you must add a dependency, because dash is not an Essential package. As I said, it is perfectly possible for a maintainer to write a script which works on any shell and allows the user to pick at installation time (heck, or even per-user!) which shell to use. Thomas
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