Re: shells/bash port, add a knob which symlinks to /bin/bash ?

From: Alfred Perlstein <bright_at_mu.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:06:53 -0700
On 9/12/14 3:23 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I could live with this solution of additional port outside of the main
> bash port, which creates the symlink and updates /etc/shells.
>
> One other thing I am seeing is that many, many shell scripts are 
> written assuming "#!/bin/bash".
> Forcing all upstream script writers to switch to "#!/usr/bin/env bash", or
> to convert their scripts to "#!/bin/sh" and remove all bash-specific 
> behaviors, is getting harder and harder,
> since many people are exposed to MacOS X and Linux on desktops.
>

Lol, or we could hack the image activator.  :)

-Alfred
Received on Fri Sep 12 2014 - 21:06:50 UTC

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