Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:31:36 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org> Cc: Veon Ax <veonax@protonmail.ch>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mariadb server now requires bash? Message-ID: <A3E3EF1C-B917-48B1-B6D5-4D84DC269113@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <YGO/9Ewfz9WCyk3k@neutralgood.org> References: <GHUDzrYkt-ZRUluMbjClnGFtwt91SxyplAxZzSnT3Fz_TpHoRDCOPWTf1kp1v3efSLuhz3Eftz0FGfJxuXZzPf28JmsFWw_nrhVfnTqiBAQ=@protonmail.ch> <YGO/9Ewfz9WCyk3k@neutralgood.org>
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> On Mar 30, 2021, at 7:19 PM, Kevin P. Neal <kpn@neutralgood.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 07:08:19AM +0000, Veon Ax via freebsd-questions wrote: >> Hello FreeBSD users, >> >> During a recent 'pkg upgrade' (11.4-RELEASE) I was informed that 'bash' was to be installed. I am a zsh/csh user and have no intention to install the bash shell. After some trial and error it appears to me that bash is now a runtime dependency of mariadb103-server. >> >> IIRC, bash was also listed after 'make run-depends-list' in the port of the same package. >> >> I am trying to find out why this is the case, and if there is a way around it. But so far my searches have not been successful. Does anyone know? > > Do I know for sure? No. > > But I'd guess that it comes with shell scripts that use non-portable > bashisms. This is common on Linux. <rant> There is even worse thing about both mariadb and mysql: both of them in the latest version at least use JSON (Java Script Object Notation, really ?!!) somewhere in their tables. I feel like these two projects just added Junk onto their product. I always was recommending postgresql to developers I serve as sysadmin for who were starting some new project… </rant> Valeri > -- > Kevin P. Neal http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ > > "It sounded pretty good, but it's hard to tell how it will work out > in practice." -- Dennis Ritchie, ~1977, "Summary of a DEC 32-bit machine" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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