glibc @BASH@ thing

[Petr Ovtchenkov]

On Tuesday 03 June 2008 15:18:39 Mateusz Grotek wrote:

> >   
> Yes. I understand that. So i'm trying to send this patch to libc-alpha 
> too. I donno if glibc utilities would work with dash (without bash 
> installed). But if it is possible, we could give users choice which 
> shell they like. People from ubuntu made dash default shell, so why we 
> couldn't do it? Is it fair to force users to have bash installed? With 
> BLFS it could be, because many packages depend on it in their scripts. 
> But LFS should be more basic i suppose. you don't have to build any 
> package from BLFS if you don't want to. But you MUST to build all 
> packages from LFS if you want your system. So let's give the users 
> choice.

IMO user's already has choice: use bash. Just for info: glibc want to see
not only bash, but also gawk, not mawk (installed in debian-derived distros
as default awk). Let's discover other mines?

> I donno if other packages from LFS depends on bash installed. If  
> there are some, this issue doesn't matter. Do you know if there are any?

  - ptr