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. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
