[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

· Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net>:

> On Saturday 02 September 2006 14:10, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:06:15 +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:
>> > > A 20% reduction in boot time is a reasonable impact IMO.
>> >
>> > Any chance that was a fluke?
>>
>> I ran the test several times, and switched back top bash to confirm. The
>> boot times were consistent, within the accuracy of the idiot holding the
>> stopwatch :)
> 
> The only downside to this is that some emerges will fail if they rely on 
> bash's enhanced features.

But those are broken ebuilds. If they need bash, then they've got
to call bash and not sh, which has to be POSIX compliant and nothing
more.

> I just did the roundy-round with this and ffmepg.  
> Linking sh back to bash allowed the emerge to complete. The failure, by the 
> way, was during configure.

With ffmpeg?
> 
> Jerry

Alexander Skwar
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