On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 10:10:20PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > dash is the default /bin/sh since squeeze, released in 2011. It's not a goal > anymore, it's been done. It's also not a consensus but a requirement. But > you probably mean something else than /bin/sh when talking about "replacing > bash in the debian core", for the same reason of /bin/sh not being bash.
Actually I saw dash became the default sh and awk became the default awk but the step forward could be to remove coreutils from the base. I have daily use of busybox and it is a capable replacement in all the debian script I read. I was just asking if reducing the base size is a popular topic in debian devel community. regards. -- Marc Chantreux Pôle CESAR (Calcul et services avancés à la recherche) Université de Strasbourg ☎ 03.68.85.60.79
