On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:05:09AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > If you change /bin/sh to dash, then you'll have to map two shell > > binaries into memory (since the login shell is going to stay on bash), > > hence the resource usage grows. > > systemd (as PID 1, not counting additional required processes) takes > over 10 times as much resident memory as dash. Do you really want to go > down that path? > > > You increase the number of packages > > and minimal footprint of our OS images since we need to install one > > more package. > > A true minimal-footprint install would not require bash, so this would > reduce the size (dash installed size: 155K, bash installed size: 3.6M). > > > You create a *lot* of porting work for all those > > scripts. You *break* all scripts that currently reference /bin/sh in > > the shebang-line but use bashisms. > > Those scripts are already broken, and mostly already fixed because of > Debian/Ubuntu (and *BSD, etc.). The remaining scripts are largely going > to be Fedora-specific, and that's not nearly as big of pile of code as > you imply. > > It is also funny to hear the systemd author talk about not breaking > things and creating lots of work. Could we please remain on the technical level and avoid personal attacks? Thanks, Pierre -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
