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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 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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I think the biggest issue would be ebuilds, of which many seem to use very |
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bash specific features. I'm not sure what would break between the various |
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shells, but things like bash's export vs. tcsh's setenv command could cause a |
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lot of grief. |
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Caleb |
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