Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

[Olivier Crete]

On Tue, 2007-06-02 at 21:11 +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:03:50 -0500
> Olivier Crete <tester@g.o> wrote:
> > What so wrong with bash?
>
> Unsuited to an init system that wants to work everywhere, like embedded
> systems.
>
> Also, being tied to one shell causes problems when that shell breaks.
> Witness baselayout problems regarding bash-3.0, 3.1 and 3.2
>
> Lastly, in my first email I said
> >Now, this email isn't about the merits of bash, nor the fact that it's
> >in base system profile so we can use it anyway, blah blah blah.
> >embedded has a vested interest in not using bash and I have a personal
> >interest as Gentoo/FreeBSD on Sparc64 takes a very long time to boot.
>
> I'm assuming you did't read that bit :)

Actually I did, but I really dont see what kind of embedded system would
be complex enough to require the Gentoo init system, yet not enough to
use bash.

And I don't see why g/fbsd sparc64 is problematic? Or is it just that
you have a 1995 vintage system and you want to run Gentoo on it?

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Olivier Crête
tester@g.o
Gentoo Developer

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