On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 13:27 -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > I strongly agree with this. Programs that ask for sh should get sh, and > programs that ask for bash should get bash. > > Programs that ask for bash and use bashisms are already broken for the Ubuntu > family (ie: Ubuntu and derivates), and on any *BSD, and *need to be fixed > upstream*! > > I also remember having to port some scripts from BSD to Arch and seeing how > they broke on bash because bash has non-sh behaviours. > > Bash is not sh, and should not be treated as such. I've no issue with having > bash in my system and that scripts with the proper shebang use it. Too funny, off-list I wrote somebody and mentioned: "[snip] I prefer dash over bash for compatibility reasons. My "main" distro is Arch Linux, but I watch what's happening with other distros (and FreeBSD). [snip] Btw. FreeBSD goes a completely different way ;) [snip]" I BCC the mail to this person ;).
