"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[email protected]> writes:

> But probably for the shell cases it is easier to remove 'essential'
> flag (especially for a minimal nearly POSIX-like shell like dash),
> because the interface of #!/bin/sh is defined in policy (10.3).

Except that every package in Debian that explicitly uses bash has no
declared dependency on bash because it's essential.  I think attempting to
go through and add all those dependencies and test would be a huge waste
of time and resources.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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