[arch-general] [Bulk] Re: A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?

[Florian Pelz]

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On 09/27/2014 09:23 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 09:04 +0200, Florian Pelz wrote:
>> On 09/27/2014 09:01 AM, Benjamin A. Shelton wrote:
>>> On 09/26/2014 05:11 PM, Doug Newgard wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I should qualify that in that I don't think adding another 
>>>> package to base is a good idea *unless* there is a
>>>> significant benefit to doing so. The plan to add dash to base
>>>> when Arch was using initscripts made sense, it doesn't now
>>>> that we're using systemd. There's already too much in base
>>>> IMO.
>>>> 
>>>> Doug
>>> 
>>> By that reasoning, if the intent is to make base leaner, then
>>> bash ought to be replaced with dash (mkinitcpio and others 
>>> notwithstanding). :)
>>> 
>>> Benjamin
>> 
>> Regardless of what's the default, could there be a cleaner way to
>> use dash as one's /bin/sh without preventing pacman from
>> upgrading bash?
> 
> I would add usr/bin/sh to my pacman.conf's NoExtract, then bash
> would be updated, but the link wouldn't be overwritten, I'm already
> using it for other reasons:
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql bash | grep /usr/bin/sh bash
> /usr/bin/sh [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep NoExtract
> /etc/pacman.conf NoExtract   = usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop
> usr/share/xsessions/gnome-fallback.desktop
> usr/share/xsessions/gnome-flashback-compiz.desktop
> usr/share/xsessions/openbox-kde.desktop
> 

Thank you. I probably should pay more attention to what the ArchWiki
says on dash; I just read it there.
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