On 5 May 2010 21:57, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I really don't understand why some distros use dash. Yes, dash is > smaller and faster, but although the differences are measurable, they > are not discernible to the user. >
I think it's "their distro, their rules". Or, perhaps "we can measure it, so it _must_ be important". Remember that some distros are surrounded by vast numbers of bootscripts. In the real world, I believe dash has improved a lot once they started using it as /bin/sh, but it's still sufficently different to cause problems, e.g. in the kernel's build scripts. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
