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

[Benjamin A. Shelton]

On 09/27/2014 01:04 AM, Florian Pelz wrote:
> 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?

Manually replace /bin/sh as a symlink to /bin/dash and then set the 
/etc/pacman.conf values:

NoUpgrade = usr/bin/sh
NoExtract = usr/bin/sh

?

Note: I assumed NoExtract should have been enough since the symlink 
usr/bin/sh -> usr/bin/bash exists in the bash package, but NoUpgrade 
alone creates the symlink, and NoExtract alone removes the existing 
symlink, leaving nothing in its wake. Use at your own risk, because this 
WILL break packages expecting /bin/sh to be bash and probably other things.

Benjamin