On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Adam Danischewski <adam.danischew...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > Declaring a variable doesn't seem risky enough to eat up the return code. > Is there a reason for this? I doubt that it would break anything to change. > It's a lot more intuitive and syntactically streamlined to check for > missing packages/software at the initial declaration as a sanity check.
This topic has been discussed several times in the past. Please review: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-03/msg00010.html and https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-03/msg00036.html for an explanation.
