Hi! On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 18:30:17 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:32:18AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > So far, I need to do the following to remove bash (and associated risk of > > 0-days until something sane is done about functions) > > That is not supported, sorry. Bash is in the "essential" set, which > means that packages can (and do!) use functionality from bash without an > explicit dependency.
This has been discussed before, I've done a quick initial summary of the previous discussion here: <https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/RemoveBashFromEssential> > In the case of bash, dpkg can (and does!) use bash explicitly (i.e., > without going through /bin/sh), so removing bash will pretty much nuke > your system. Hmm, where? Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

