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On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:08:02AM +0100, Daniel Armyr wrote: |
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> > But but but ... who doesn't like bash? |
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> We exist. Not many of us, but we do exist. At this time it is very |
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> dificult to administer Gentoo without resorting to bash as a shell. At |
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> times quite frequently. This means users have less sof a choice. This is |
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> often in GentooLand considdered a "bad thing". |
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Do you want to use another sh-compatible shell, or do you want to use a |
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csh-compatible shell? The former should be achievable, if only with a lot of |
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work. (Scripts should be written in portable sh, using no bash-specific |
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features.) The latter is effectively impossible, as it would require |
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maintaining both sh and csh scripts - and script programming in csh is |
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widely regarded as a Bad Idea. (There's a famous paper out there about why |
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you should not treat csh as a programming language.) |
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