On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 06:04:20PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Hi > > bash is not the default system shell anymore. It's now only the default > user shell. As such it is not required for a sysadmin to boot and > install software. Besides that some users would like to get rid of bash > in their environment which is obviously not easily done atm. > > The most obvious reason to not degrade bash to Priority: important is > obviously that one needs to declare a dependency on bash when it's used > in a package. Which means quite some packages will need to be changed. > > What do others think of moving bash to important (required and important > are part of the base system)?
I definitely like this idea. While I wouldn't ever uninstall bash on my own laptop/server/whatever (unless someone comes along with a nice replacement), dropping it on embedded devices makes a lot of sense. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <t...@debian.org> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- 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/20110406211118.gb9...@suiko.acc.umu.se
