Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:14:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: huppe@execpc.com (Len Huppe) Cc: asmodai@wxs.nl, des@flood.ping.uio.no, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <199907272314.QAA00814@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <379D20CA.F7EC7E15@execpc.com> from "Len Huppe" at Jul 26, 99 10:00:26 pm
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> As a newcomer to FreeBSD, I am intersted in knowing why so many of you > *hate* bash. Speaking for myself, it's because people who don't know better depend upon its features, rendering shell scripts non-portable. In order to run these scripts, you have to install bash. In order to do that, you have to run "configure". In order to do that, you have to install GNU "make". ... It's a hellish web of interdependency, which could have been avoided, had no one installed bash. Of course, some people blame the idiots who put "bash-isms" in their scripts, but you really can't blame the people who drive automatics for your inability to rent a manual transmission car, right? 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
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