The overwhelming majority of Ubuntu users would almost never notice application installs running faster? I am serious. There are packages that take over a minute for post-install dpkg configuration, and dash speeds them up a LOT. It's the difference in spending 10 minutes or 30 minutes on dist-upgrade (or I guess adept probably just does upgrade).
Bash being optionally POSIX compliant, with or without exceptions, really has no bearing here. Bashisms are bad. They need to be fixed. I understand the idea of keeping Ubuntu easy for everyone to use, but you also need to understand that sometimes you have to do things the hard way to make the world a better place. Ubuntu is the first major distro to move to dash. I think we have begun down a slippery slope towards eradication of bashisms. They never would have gone away if it was just 'the right thing to do', but now if you write broken scripts you give up support for a major distro. I don't think any new bashisms will be entering the world as soon as a year from now, and I expect we can resolve any existing problems by then as well. Bite the bullet. -- Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink https://launchpad.net/bugs/61463 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
