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Hi, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I cannot remove dash nor bash. Both are marked as essential packages. > One shell should be enough for a minimal system. That's a good point. Raphael, do you remember why dash is essential? Once we have a good mechanism for safely switching between arbitrary policy-compliant shells (Bug#540512), would it be possible to make "sh" essential instead? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110327134922.GA7584@elie
