On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:07:14AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > Changing the default /bin/sh is going to break the world. > > [citation needed] > > Anything that depends on bash as /bin/sh is already getting Fedora > specific. Debian/Ubuntu don't use bash as /bin/sh for years, and none > of the other major Unix-like systems (e.g. *BSD, Solaris, etc.) have > ever used bash as /bin/sh. > > To say "it is a lot of work" or "is going to break the world", the > requirement for proof is on you. Yep, I'm pretty sceptical that it would be alot of work because the vast majority of programs have long ago dealt with the pain in order to run on Debian correctly. The only areas I'd see it being a problem is in Fedora/RHEL specific code. Stuff like initscripts (thankfully almost all killed due to systemd) and ifcfg-XXX network scripts (still around but mostly irrelevant if you are willing use NetworkManager). I'd be curious of the results if someone wants to take a stock Fedora 21 install and switch /bin/sh to point to dash and report if they can still boot & login to GNOME. I recently tried to change /bin/sh to point to /bin/false and the distro was still surprisingly functional, against thanks to systemd removing most use of shell from the boot process. The big problems with dhclient spawning shell script, plymouth graphical boot, ssh key generation and something I didn't investigate in X / GDM login. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
