-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/2014 09:23 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 09:04 +0200, Florian Pelz wrote: >> 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? > > I would add usr/bin/sh to my pacman.conf's NoExtract, then bash > would be updated, but the link wouldn't be overwritten, I'm already > using it for other reasons: > > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql bash | grep /usr/bin/sh bash > /usr/bin/sh [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep NoExtract > /etc/pacman.conf NoExtract = usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop > usr/share/xsessions/gnome-fallback.desktop > usr/share/xsessions/gnome-flashback-compiz.desktop > usr/share/xsessions/openbox-kde.desktop > Thank you. I probably should pay more attention to what the ArchWiki says on dash; I just read it there. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUJmbSAAoJEMqreLELZNG3e3QQAKsXEXJtdRKkDdryWp9N/qaN gI7JgVl5IXhhz6rxes7AdC4uSxJ58otmD4xvORU/jyU9crI/5EdGdosFbcX/LMub x5JxxWcskcFfaL2RLW4LV4AU0Ec7Vllut03TVAYiQDGE0D9bXYntymtBQc6vuvIo xhln8h9c1O8CnwsDdmCX/PqaprEXB4YKDoK2jShlbzs7kKv0fx/1EHC1IEfglu9R tMChMkyFwcIvyH1dVNqVIaIt0TlQsjcbxRxhddmuZX2hriX3fzFQkywdxva8Pm+o 9I1tfz7CJ8HDxPo9WB5iaeE5PXPyUZRh5H/CNCFRmyb88BuYs6ZG+HyKrmrX074d AkKGS9A856ryemFX437NuUmWdnziJqJqkAbN6L06FHzFX+/rPzg5pJQD2ctVUDT3 Zv3DUgVhLQcgtEKxVKsI8YBHOM7A0EVRh62KFAaTzNfFbRNVj6eLnK0GPqQDrcL7 lLBUdUGxCvVQ/3q7hbrLFg1kDqu2sH5ZsJlV53C+JwwSLDx5K6zwDoGQ5fpT3j21 klWYeDWcdh1aKGDr8ufU0Y6jtwOUkIkx+BFCz3+hg9LM3xkEnxpc4vTZ9gppa1fG v5QvNzG7gmguJghEJ0OcGZ6lkHr4IkwXtAA9qSFCxLDsQmbVEplpaLMgTrFb5LZW hDuNeiw0xMpQzchAuknU =Gjur -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----