On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 23:55 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > > Instead of focusing and hammering again and again on /bin/sh, why not > > instead ask maintainers to do #!/bin/dash? > > Because the correct is #!/bin/sh and not to be tied on particular shell.
I can't tell what you mean. There is nothing wrong with using #!/bin/dash if that's what the maintainer wants to specify. > Bash is not there "nayway". It is posisble to substitute it for the > reasons explained (memory consumption), without any significant loss of > interactive functionality. And around and around we go. Dash itself say it is not suitable for interactive use, and, bash is an Essential part of Debian. > > The point was making script sh-agnostic. dash is just an > implementation of sh. Someone may very well use busybox or /bin/posh. Sure, if the maintainer thinks one of those is best, they could be used too. Thomas
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