On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Sean wrote:
I'd really like to replace the /bin/sh link to point to a smaller shell,
such as ash or dash instead of the bash default, but that apparently makes
functions.sh _very_ unhappy.
Use baselayout-2. I use /bin/sh - dash with baselayout-2 and have no
problems with the following exceptions:
1. Some /etc/init.d scripts of certain packages need patches (I already
mailed several bugs with patches, but some are ignored; e.g. udftools
still has no working init-file despite new releases and the open bug)
So you have to be prepared to continue patching for many releases
of some packages.
Fortunately, not too many packages are involved (but on the other
hand, I do not use too many packages with daemons, so maybe there
are many I don't know about)
2. man displays rubbish at the end of the page. As a workaround,
I export MANPL=65535, but one should perhaps file a bug upstream.
However, I cannot name the cause (but did not look very long for it
either).
3. There were some portage-related tools (but I forgot which one)
which displayed textual escape sequences instead of colors
(probably, because echo -e is not POSIX). However, this is
only a cosmetical issue.
Martin
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