Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 20:07 +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:49:10PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > There's a difference between requiring maintainer scripts to say > > > /bin/bash if they need bash constructs and rewriting existing scripts > > > to work with some generic shell. The former is going to be *much* > > > easier. Isn't that enough? > > > > If you just want to avoid things breaking, it's enough. If you want to > > be able to use the scripts on an embedded platform, or to take advantage > > of the performance boost of using dash instead of bash, it isn't. > > Debian does not support every need.
I think the spirit of Debian is to be versatile and going towards it or improving it is the spirit of itself. Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
