Re: More than 10% of all Fedora spec files are not POSIX sh compliant

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On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 3:44 AM Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le 2019-03-25 22:47, Japheth Cleaver a écrit :
> > If you can take a one-time hit to
> > remove bashisms and get a 25-40% improvement,
>
> CPU time is cheap, packager time is not. Exchanging CPU time for "you
> all should learn to write POSIX-only shell scripts" would be an awful
> deal. The Java part of Fedora is slowly imploding right now because a
> lot of people pushed their complexity on packagers, and the packagers
> could not cope. The Fedora target should be to help packagers achieve
> more with less work, not achieve less with more work.
>
> POSIX is dead as a shell compatibility target. You want to replace bash
> with something faster, by all means do it. With something that includes
> the GNU extensions like pushd/popd that most packagers expect today.

Is there any reason to *ever* use pushd or popd in %build  or %install today?
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