Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > It is not like you will be able to remove bash from the vast majority of > the Debian systems out there anyway, so it doesn't matter if it remains > "essential" for a while.
The goal of dropping bash from essential is not to remove bash from the systems (or from Debian), it is about making packages really using it depend on it. > > The embedded crowd would want to find a way to get rid of bash, though, > and trying to make bash a non-essential package seems like a worthwile > effort > because of that. It can even be reasonably automated, since you can rgrep > /bin/bash to find out scripts that use it on packages that don't declare a > dependency on bash... > Yes, most of it can be automated with scripts run debhelper and cdbs. Cheers, Raphael Geissert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
