On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 19:39, Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 6/17/20 2:36 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > > > > > On 6/17/20 2:18 PM, Piscium via arch-general wrote: > >> Today I set dash as my default shell [1] on two PCs. We will see if I > >> get into trouble. > >> > >> This question was asked years ago but maybe good to ask again. Could > >> dash be made the default shell in Arch? > > > > > > Couldn't you just set it as the default for your user using chsh? > > This isn't about using it as a login shell. Describing this as "my > default shell" is a very bad description. > > This is actually about setting dash as the system /bin/sh implementation. Indeed, poor choice of words, sorry for the confusion, however in the link I provided in my original email [1] it was clear in what sense I meant it to be a default. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dash#Use_DASH_as_/bin/sh
