-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Natanael Copa wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 05:39 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > >> I don't think there is a technical reason to avoid using bash. > > Ofcourse there is. See first issue mentioned in BUGS section in bash > manpage. >
Presumably these bugs don't impact gentoo or we'd already be working around them. I don't see an issue with having bash as a gentoo dependency. Users don't have to use it as their primary shell - they just need to have it installed. I probably wouldn't use python at all if it weren't for portage, but I'm not complaining about migrating that. Now, if there were some gentoo target platform for which bash wasn't available maybe that would be a different issue - or if we were talking about some huge package that consumed tons of ram/space/etc. However, nobody is going to run gentoo on an embedded system (unless they build the system and then prune out the toolchain - in which case rm /bin/bash is pretty simple to do). Don't get me wrong - I would prefer that gentoo support more choices more officially (paludis comes to mind). However, that doesn't mean that we need to support choices that don't provide significant benefits. Now, if a posix-clean herd wants to take on the work of retooling stuff to be posixly-correct then perhaps we might ask other devs to be nice to them and accommodate their changes. However, that is a bit different than asking all the devs to use syntax that perhaps they're less than familiar with. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHAmVfG4/rWKZmVWkRAnlLAJ4noZkumP5prEofYtRDFyhYruPMIACgj2ZM lpaA2Ky4AdC3fTyL7AzBmfU= =qvmS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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