On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 22:00, brian m. carlson
<sand...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> wrote:

> There isn't a list per se; I was using that term metaphorically.  dash,
> posh, ksh, mksh, and pdksh all have support for diverting /bin/sh to
> their respective shells.  I'd like zsh to add that support.

What kind of support are you looking for? Calling zsh as sh will put
it into compatible mode, so bending the symlink is no problem.


> Obviously, the best solution is to make all the shells use the
> alternatives mechanism, but I think that may be impossible since /bin/sh
> is so essential to the system that dpkg (which provides
> update-alternatives) may not be able to be installed unless there is a
> working /bin/sh.  Major props if you can get it to work.

That is something for debian-de...@ldo, not for us :p

Wanna write a proposal?


Richard



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