Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
On Tuesday 2019-03-12 17:23, Neal Gompa wrote:
I can't see a consensus reached in this discussion. Yet, a request to put /bin/sh under control of update-alternatives is on the way to Factory. So just creating facts.
That creates a dependency loop, though.
bash already pulled in update-alternatives (at least for build time) already in some way, so using it seemed more or less free.
I am not sure what you mean by that, but bash can be compiled as "POSIX compliant". This is e.g. done on Mac OS (where bash is installed as /bin/sh and where no other POSIX shell is provided by the OS) and on Solaris, where bash is just installed as /usr/bin/bash (with a symlink /usr -> /usr/bin) and where bash is just one of many shells. If you do that, you break all noncompliant scripts that typically make non-POSIX assumptions on the behavior of the built in "echo" command. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org