On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:33:21AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: >> Steve, let's take a step back and calm down. > >> Are you saying that your objection to engineering a solution where >> dash doesn't need to be essential is that it's not worth the effort? >> I *think* that was the point of your message but am not entirely sure. > > Yes, that's definitely my position. From what I can see, engineering a > solution where dash doesn't need to be essential isn't worth *any* effort, > because IMHO, so far the arguments for being able to remove dash from the > system appear entirely contrived.
I think you are not going far enough. Why should I have dash on the system when my default shell is posh? or (gasp) zsh? I think one of the objections here is that we ought to have a more generic approach that allows shells other than dash/bash to be the default shell, and that the vendor not make the choice. manoj -- "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." George Bernard Shaw Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org