On Thu, 2022-02-10 at 08:45 +0000, Danilo Spinella wrote:
On Thu, 2022-02-10 at 09:07 +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Thu, Feb 10, dziobian wrote:
I noticed this being added a few weeks ago:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/rdiff/openSUSE:Factory/dash?linkrev=base&...
Anyone knows how supported is this / when is it going to get switched on by default?
It is as supported as anthing else in Tumbleweed. Using dash as default doesn't make any sense, this would only mean one more shell beside bash and increasing the system without benefit
One user could use dash because it's significantly faster than bash, so having it as default shell will have a faster boot and/or system theorically. In practice the difference is negligible, assuming dash being 1~2s faster at best.
Unfortunately Jörg Schilling isn't with us anymore, as he'd certainly have commented here. His previous posts on the topic are an interesting read. [*] *If* we install something else as /bin/bash by default I would strongly advocate a fully POSIX-compliant shell, which dash allegedly is not. I'm sure Jörg would also claim that it's faster than anything else (dunno if that's true). Martin [*] Thread "Can we assume that /bin/sh is bash?" from 3y ago - unfortunately the factory archive seems to be down, so I can't post a link.