On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:40:55PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > The reason for making them POSIX shell compliant was because they were > > supposedly POSIX shell compatible in the beginning (or maybe that was > > Bourne shell compatible?). > > I don't follow the logic or see the goal. Depending on bash is not a > problem for the GNU system.
Actually, I told him to port it to a POSIX shell, specifically ash, because we want to use ash in space-critical environments like boot disks. Depending on bash is a problem for this. Also, some people use ash as /bin/sh, so all scripts using bash specific stuff must use /bin/bash by Debian policy (or should not use those features, of course). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
