On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 at 10:52, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
1. Because they are small
2. Because they are used.
*YOU* (as an end user) use zsh, which is fine, but many parts of the system *require* bash to be around
If you have a problem on your system and ask a friend to help out, and he/she needs to dig, he/she will most likely start their fav shell first. zsh is a fine shell, but others may prefer bash or tcsh. (I belong to the ones that us tcsh as my base shell, but *not* for scripting, for which I use sh (any POSIX compliant) or perl)
3. Because you might not be the only user
If you add your friend/child/partner to your system, they might prefer one of the alternatives, and bash is - like it or not - the de-facto default shell for users on Linux. New users expect that.
Look in /etc/shells to see that you have probably more than 3:
/bin/ash /bin/bash /bin/csh /bin/dash /bin/false /bin/ksh /bin/ksh93 /bin/mksh /bin/pdksh /bin/sh /bin/tcsh /bin/true /bin/zsh /usr/bin/csh /usr/bin/dash /usr/bin/ksh /usr/bin/ksh93 /usr/bin/mksh /usr/bin/passwd /usr/bin/pdksh /usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/tcsh /usr/bin/zsh /usr/bin/fish I wasn't saying that bash shouldn't be installed if I use something else. I do know that bash is the default shell and it would break a lot of things if it gets removed. I said that after installing a desktop and a couple of packages you will get some additional shells like zsh, tcsh, and that's not probably what you want.
Again, this was just an example to show about random things that get installed because of the default zypp settings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org