Am 29.04.2012 16:04, schrieb Marc Joliet:
> Am Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:20:41 +0200
> schrieb Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>:
> 
>> Hi list!
> 
> Hi,
>  
>> Now that eselect-sh has been stabilized, I'm wondering if anyone has
>> tried setting dash as the /bin/sh symlink. Any experiences?
> 
> 
> I've been using dash as my /bin/sh for a while now. I've had it installed since
> June 2009, I suppose I've had the symlink set for the same length of time.
> 
> Pretty much all incompatibilities I encountered are fixed now, stuff like
> openrc introducing bashisms (what fun! I never used the debug option of an init
> script before or since), or the Audacity build system having #!/bin/sh but
> using bashisms. I seem to recall that I have one package installed that has this
> problem and requires changing the symlink temporarily, but I don't remember
> which. It might have been fixed by now, though.
> 
> Also, the old mysql-init-scripts-1.2 package requires bash, in case that matters
> to you.
> 
> So I don't think you should expect any problems (save for the rare exception),
> and for me there was a noticeable speedup with the init system (also reported
> by Flameeyes in his blog).
> 
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Florian Philipp
> 
> HTH

Hi Marc,

thanks for the info! I've tried it on one of my systems and in my
measurements, it definitely scraped off a few seconds of the reboot cycle.

Regards,
Florian Philipp