On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Matthias Kilian wrote: > Untested. I don't even understand what the purpose of all this > rarian and scrollkepper stuff is. And I want to be able to pkg_delete > bash without having to pkg_delete all that gnome_* goo or evince > or ... > > I'd appreciate tests and comments from the desktop crowd.
There are bashisms in the rarian-* scripts, so... s/bash/ksh is not enough, the scripts should be patched to be shell-agnostic. $ sudo /usr/local/bin/rarian-sk-update /usr/local/bin/rarian-sk-update[216]: syntax error: `$old_time' missing expression operator Just as the Unix-like OS world is made of Linux/x86, it seems shell == bash everywhere now. It is sad but most of the time I talked to upstream projects about this, they'd just not care... 'just install bash and be done with it...' is usually the answer. This issue will continue to grow. Next version of xfg-utils which is a super small utility will require bash too for the same reason... and it is not always easy to get around these bashisms :( Anyway, I like your idea, you just nee to complete it :) Cheers! -- Antoine
