Steps to install a PLD core system

[Łukasz Jernaś]

Dnia wtorek, 27 czerwca 2006 15:23, Dirk Ullrich napisał:
> 2006/6/27, wrobell <wrobell at pld-linux.org>:
> > you can use bash if you want as an user. maybe bash can be used
> > for system stuff... but we test only with pdksh. and having it
> > on a system is not big deal as its binary takes only 200KB.
>
> No big deal--agreed. I've merely asked for curiosity and a kind of
> 'package minimalism'. And I have wondered whether there are
> a priori reasons I'm unaware of to use pdksh for POSIX stuff instead
> of bash. Of course, being tested well or not _is_ a reason.

AFAIK it was set up because many people like to write (even unintentionally) 
only bash compatible, with pdksh they were forced to learn "proper" POSIX 
scripting so that every script could also work on systems with different 
shells set up whichever vendor they were from...

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Łukasz [DeeJay1] Jernaś