Re: Dash as default shell

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On 6 October 2014 17:28, Miloslav Trmač <mitr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> > At that point switching anything to dash can _only increase_, not reduce,
>> > the disk space needed, and is very likely to increase the total page cache
>> > usage/requirement as well.  Bringing the benefits of supporting dash to…
>> > the satisfaction of pedantically using the POSIX /bin/sh path as
>> > frequently as possible?
>>
>> Also known as portability, compatibility
>
> Upstreams can be interested in cross-distro portability and compatibility.  I don’t see much benefit for Fedora and Fedora’s users.
>

Fedora is never upstream? Ever? What happened to all the discussions
of remixes in Janurary for a start? And we're not interested in
interoperability with other distros? Because Fedora-land is quite
small compared to the whole picture.

>> and transparency.
>
> Perhaps for changing the #! line; adding yet another programming language to the OS would make it more complex and thus _reduce_ transparency.
>

Not another programming language, one that is already being used.
Being explicit about it. Why be so resistant to that?

>> Do we
>> encourage people to turn compiler warnings off?
>
> No, but most compiler warnings are useful _for increasing quality noticeable to users of Fedora_.  A warning about use of a bash construct when we are using bash doesn’t help us help users.

Getting dependencies right isn't helpful?

Lastly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Build_Service
Even the scripts that you might think are solely Fedora specific could
be useful to other people.

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