On 26/09/14 11:16, Leonid Isaev wrote: > $ head -n1 /usr/bin/mkinitcpio > #!/bin/bash > --- > > So, yes ArchLinux core tools use and will continue to use 'bashisms' because > they are convenient. Right, and I'm more or less fine with that _because_ of the above shebang line, and I'm also fine with bash being an essential package. When I say "bashism" I mean in the specific sense of "programs that assume that /bin/sh is bash and casually break otherwise because they haven't been tested with anything else", not "all bash scripting in general", nor even "programs that assume /bin/sh is bash because it's been established as policy by some other means". Assumptions that happen to hold in too many cases by accident become dangerous cognitive shortcuts, and letting them get entrenched without thinking about them leads to bizarre, inescapable compatibility situations getting worse and impeding any further development. I admit feeling a bit insulted having my mail quoted as a "witch hunt". The recent events were only a trigger to reëxamine something I'd considered doing ever since the first install a long while back. ---> Drake Wilson
