On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 14:03 -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Fri November 24 2006 13:15, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Instead of focusing and hammering again and again on /bin/sh, why not > > instead ask maintainers to do #!/bin/dash? > > because bash offers a larger superset of sh features than dash, and "sh" > is a standard part of System V-like unix systems like Linux
But #!/bin/sh scripts aren't allowed to use those. What I'm saying is that the energy spent on making rules about #!/bin/sh would be better spent encouraging people to simply switch--when appropriate--to #!/bin/dash. > > There may well be advantages to dash for this or that application. > > So then, maintainers should be encouraged to use it. The best way, > > of course, is #!/bin/dash. > > and stop using "sh" altogether, or should the www.emdebian.org people > fork the entire distribution? What I said was that *if* it is better for a given script to run with dash than with bash, the maintainer should be encouraged to say #!/bin/dash. I don't think it's my job to start saying what *other* distributions, which are not Debian, should do. Thomas
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