From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpJ5r-0005ll-JC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:43:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lA67gd4Z013502; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 07:42:39 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA67ejc5011169 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 07:40:45 GMT Received: from [10.73.1.30] (uberpc.marples.name [10.73.1.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FF01900FD for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 07:40:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX shell and "portable" From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20071106071249.260309c4@blueyonder.co.uk> References: <472B29B9.50002@gentoo.org> <1194257626.4196.9.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> <1194268910.6977.86.camel@sapc154> <200711051521.07840.vapier@gentoo.org> <1194304723.2906.47.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <20071106071249.260309c4@blueyonder.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:40:20 +0000 Message-Id: <1194334820.2887.7.camel@uberpc.marples.name> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3e55ad91-4372-435e-95d3-0bea7b155046 X-Archives-Hash: a7f7ce586bddc9d571fc8248b504c1d8 On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 07:12 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Except it won't, because ebuilds require bash regardless of which > package manager is being used. If you want to change that you'll have to > rewrite the entire tree. Az once said near enough the same thing about baselayout. And that's your view, your entitled to it, but it is not my view. Change a little bit here, a little bit there. Slowly does it. Yes, I know that a fair chunk of the tree will need a re-write, just in the same way that the init scripts got a re-write. It will take time, it will not happen magically over night. To think overwise is foolish :) But if the default shell remains bash but the PM had enough knobs on it so this could be changed (maybe per ebuild) in /etc then work *could* start. Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list