From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 28 16:31:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2399D15534 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13335; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:31:22 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd012997; Wed Jul 28 16:31:04 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA19144; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:30:10 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199907282330.QAA19144@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! To: dan@freebsddiary.org Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:30:10 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199907280837.UAA63207@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> from "Dan Langille" at Jul 28, 99 08:37:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Speaking for myself, it's because people who don't know better > > depend upon its features, rendering shell scripts non-portable. -------- ** **** ****** ******** ** ** > > It's a hellish web of interdependency, which could have been > > avoided, had no one installed bash. > > Ummmm, might I introduce you to: > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/shell.htm > > You'll see that the above is not correct. I understand that the ports hierarchy has handled most of this for FreeBSD (except updating /etc/shells, like it should), but I'm complaining about script portability, and that means that at least one of the machines involved isn't FreeBSD (or Linux, to forestall anyone who wants to flame me on that particular technicality). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message