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

Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.talk at gmail.com
Sun Aug 5 22:41:47 EDT 2012


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
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> 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....


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