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@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql bash | grep /usr/bin/sh bash /usr/bin/sh [rocketmouse@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