[arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

Sébastien Luttringer seblu at seblu.net
Sun Aug 5 22:57:33 EDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Kyle <kyle at gmx.ca> wrote:
>> I'm more curious as to why zsh is used in the live/install media but not on the base install. I personally like zsh, but it seems better IMHO to use the same interactive shell on both the live media and the base installation as performed by
>>
>> pacstrap /mnt base
>>
>> more because of a perceived need to maintain some uniformity between the install media and the base install rather than any technical reason.
>> ~Kyle
>
> Pretty good idea, really (then again, I use zsh on every install).
> bash is in [core] (and depended on by most scripts) which zsh is in
> [extra] though....
Maybe one day zsh will become the default shell on arch :)


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