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On 03/26/04 Caleb Tennis wrote: |
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> On Friday 26 March 2004 02:39 pm, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> > That's exactly the point of my questions as well, actually. We got |
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> > a 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 |
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> > stuff uses /bin/bash explicitly, and not /bin/sh. The thinking |
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> > behind that report was that people may want to have some |
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> > other-than-bash shell installed, which is what brings us to here now |
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> > :) |
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> I think the biggest issue would be ebuilds, of which many seem to use |
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> very bash specific features. I'm not sure what would break between |
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> the various shells, but things like bash's export vs. tcsh's setenv |
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> command could cause a lot of grief. |
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portage uses (and RDEPENDs on) bash, not sh. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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