Am 29.04.2012 16:04, schrieb Marc Joliet: > Am Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:20:41 +0200 > schrieb Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net>: > >> Hi list! > > Hi, > >> Now that eselect-sh has been stabilized, I'm wondering if anyone has >> tried setting dash as the /bin/sh symlink. Any experiences? > > > I've been using dash as my /bin/sh for a while now. I've had it installed > since > June 2009, I suppose I've had the symlink set for the same length of time. > > Pretty much all incompatibilities I encountered are fixed now, stuff like > openrc introducing bashisms (what fun! I never used the debug option of an > init > script before or since), or the Audacity build system having #!/bin/sh but > using bashisms. I seem to recall that I have one package installed that has > this > problem and requires changing the symlink temporarily, but I don't remember > which. It might have been fixed by now, though. > > Also, the old mysql-init-scripts-1.2 package requires bash, in case that > matters > to you. > > So I don't think you should expect any problems (save for the rare exception), > and for me there was a noticeable speedup with the init system (also reported > by Flameeyes in his blog). > >> Thanks in advance! >> Florian Philipp > > HTH
Hi Marc, thanks for the info! I've tried it on one of my systems and in my measurements, it definitely scraped off a few seconds of the reboot cycle. Regards, Florian Philipp
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