Hi, I hope this is the right mailing list for this question. If nothing else you seem to be the right people to ask.
Considering that dash and mawk are smaller and faster than bash and gawk I was a bit surprised to find that LFS doesn't support them. Even Ubuntu, that is a huge distribution by comparison, uses those packages because they provide better performance. Considering that one of the reasons for building your own linux system is to get better performance, it would make sense to use the best performing packages. So why doesn't LFS use or at least support these packages? I'm specifically interested in knowing if there are any technical reasons for not supporting these packages, e.g. package x doesn't work with dash/mawk. If it's just for historical reasons, maybe it's time to reconsider? Thanks, Erik Blomqvist
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