Hi, Today, searching in my distribution (debian) for which packages depended on readline, I learnt that bash didn’t link with readline, but bundled its own version present in its sources tree.
Why so? is it to gain performance? is the memory waste minimal or even negative due to some optimization? is it because distributions may find difficult to embed an instance of a recent-enough readline? doesn’t this add complexity to manage synchronization between bash readline and upstream one? I’m curious about this…
