On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 01:13:54PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> This installs zsh and sets it as default for root and the arch user. >> grml-zsh-config is installed as a userfriendly default configuration. >> >> Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> >> --- > > I think this is fine. It'll throw some people off, but ZSH really is a > better interactive shell. sysresccd does this and its rather nice. It > isn't like bash won't be available if it becomes _that_ unpleasant for > the user.
i would suggest making it *very* obvious the current shell is not bash, eg. maybe with a brief blurb about what the user can do: "Welcome to Archlinux. You are currently in an interactive <bold>ZSH</bold>, and as such you may: [...] [...] [...] Enjoy your stay!" ... as it would certainly throw me off. not that it would take to long to figure out, but avoiding some `WTF?` time would be preferable. Bash is fairly defacto when it comes to "the default shell on the image i just started" -- C Anthony
