Re: Fwd: /bin/sh linked to dash? SOlVED, however..

Robert Isaac <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.amd64
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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Finding all scripts with /bin/sh and changing them to /bin/bash can be
> done in a couple of lines of perl.  Trivial to do really

It's more trivial to change the default shell to bash if it is
necessary for a configuration, there is no need to get defensive about
dash or force its use upon anyone that doesn't want to use it.

> (and /bin/sh is not going
> back to bash, it is going to dash or other smaller and more efficient
> posix shell choices since it speeds up boot time to not have to load
> bash for things that don't require bash).

So a few seconds saved whenever a kernel update is issued justifies
breaking existing configurations?  Are you really making that
argument?
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