On 18/05/10 14:28, Dan McGee wrote:
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Pierre Schmitz<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 15 May 2010 15:48:46 +1000, Allan McRae<[email protected]>
wrote:
On 15/05/10 12:09, Dan McGee wrote:
Signoff both architectures, new-ish upstream version. We no longer
build statically with klibc since it doesn't exist; instead this is
linked against glibc. It is still super lightweight though.
Signoff both.
Although... given this is no longer statically linked, does this need
to stay in the base group, or even [core]?
Good question. I had to look it up: Dan introduced the dash package to
have a non-breakable shell in core and a future provider of /bin/sh. But
the latter wasn't implemented yet and no other package depends on it. So I
guess we could safely remove it from core/base and add it to extra.
Well since we have been busted as hell at requiring scripts to be
strictly sh-compatible, this hasn't been able to slip in as our
default sh (even something Ubuntu could pull off). I guess I don't
care what you guys want to do with it since no one really cares about
having a fast and stable sh interpreter; I gave up on this pursuit a
while back as no one else seemed interested.
Well, if we eventually want dash as /bin/sh, then it definitely needs to
stay in [core].
Is there a bug report/wiki page or anything detailing what we need to do
to make that change? It has been so long since this was brought up, I
have forgotten what has and has not been done.
Allan
