Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it time for bash-3?

[Donnie Berkholz]

Marius Mauch wrote:
> In that case adding >=bash-3 to "system" isn't sufficient. I'll leave
> the detailed explanation to Brian, but the only thing you can rely on
> in the ebuild environment is what the used portage version has in it's
> dep strings when it was merged.
> Not that it has much practical relevance given the age of bash-3
> and things depending on it (don't think anybody is still on bash-2),
> but adding it to "system" wouldn't help those people.

The details are not important. The main point here is being able to use
bash-3 features. What do we need to get us there?

Thanks,
Donnie