* Siggy Brentrup <deb...@psycho.i21k.de> [2009 Aug 02 11:54 -0500]: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:30 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > This will take at least one more release cycle, more likely two, if it > > > is ever accomplished. It is very hard to remove functionality from the > > > set of essential packages. > > > > So probably still better to help speed up that process instead of forking. > > 5 years with 2 release cycles didn't change much apart from removed > bashisms. It's still uncertain whether another 2 cycles will be > enough to achieve that goal. I'm beginning to doubt mainstream Debian > will have bash out of essential in my lifetime (63yo). A possible > solution is a new set of essential packages, implying a fork. > > The point of my aside you kindly jumped on was while doing a fork > don't forget to remove bash from essential.
Please enlighten me as to why removing Bash from essential is important. My understanding was that Bash was the defacto standard shell these days. I understand that Dash is smaller which means it could be useful. Is Dash so much smaller/faster that it offers a real performance advantage over Bash on smaller systems like netbooks? Or is it something else? - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
