Wouter Verhelst wrote: > There are embedded environments where 80KB is a concern. We're not at > the level yet where we can reasonably support such environments, but > there are people who are trying to change that, and I don't think we > should make it harder for them by setting things up in a way that isn't > strictly necessary, but is the easy way out. This change is for the benefit of those environments; it could be the first step of dropping bash from Essential in favor of dash.
It's certainly doable: 2 years ago I added a lintian check and ran it on the whole archive. Most packages are easily "fixed" (as in work-arounded) by adding a dependency on bash. The challenge is on preinst/postrm scripts that use bash and should be rewritten to avoid bashisms (e.g. mysql). Note that I'm not advocating that since I'm not convinced (yet) that is needed. Personally, I don't think that Debian will ever target environments where 80KB (or 107KB) of waste in default install matters. Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
