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

[Florian Pelz]

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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?
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