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On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 11:01, Peter Johanson wrote: |
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> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:03:06AM -0800, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> > Hi Party People in the house, |
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> > Wondering if perhaps we should have a virtual/sh provided by sh |
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> > compatible shells? |
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> > Thoughts? |
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> Is this ultimately to let people have something other than bash for |
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> their "standard shell"? and not have bash installed? Cause lord knows |
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> what all would break in gentoo land if bash weren't around. *cringe* |
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> How does this make things better than the current situation? |
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That's exactly the point of my questions as well, actually. We got a |
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bug report in (at least one, probably more), asking for choice in |
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shells. The complaint essentially was that the rc-script and init stuff |
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uses /bin/bash explicitly, and not /bin/sh. The thinking behind that |
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report was that people may want to have some other-than-bash shell |
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installed, which is what brings us to here now :) |
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Seemant Kulleen |
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Developer and Project Co-ordinator, |
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Gentoo Linux http://dev.gentoo.org/~seemant |
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