On Tuesday 03 June 2008 15:18:39 Mateusz Grotek wrote: > > > Yes. I understand that. So i'm trying to send this patch to libc-alpha > too. I donno if glibc utilities would work with dash (without bash > installed). But if it is possible, we could give users choice which > shell they like. People from ubuntu made dash default shell, so why we > couldn't do it? Is it fair to force users to have bash installed? With > BLFS it could be, because many packages depend on it in their scripts. > But LFS should be more basic i suppose. you don't have to build any > package from BLFS if you don't want to. But you MUST to build all > packages from LFS if you want your system. So let's give the users > choice.
IMO user's already has choice: use bash. Just for info: glibc want to see not only bash, but also gawk, not mawk (installed in debian-derived distros as default awk). Let's discover other mines? > I donno if other packages from LFS depends on bash installed. If > there are some, this issue doesn't matter. Do you know if there are any? - ptr -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
