From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 16 6:30:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D40337B9C1 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 06:30:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id PAA28058 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:30:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA84601 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:03:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Date: 16 Apr 2000 14:03:34 +0200 Message-ID: <8dca6m$2ijc$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <8dap2t$1ome$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Annelise Anderson wrote: > So take it out and put bash in instead, and make bash the > default user shell. bash's license (GPL) makes it exceedingly unattractive for inclusion into the base system as long as there are alternatives. Although Linux converts tend to ask for bash, I'm under the impression that most of them use only a minute fraction of bash's features and in fact aren't particular aware of the possibilities bash offers--and even more so a current version of bash would offer rather than the ancient 1.14.7 still shipped with many Linux distributions. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message