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Date:      Mon, 2 Nov 1998 15:17:34 +0100
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com, Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shells for you and shells for me
Message-ID:  <19981102151734.A25766@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <19981101164732.A22829@nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 04:47:32PM -0800
References:  <3633C8F8.EF8E14D5@null.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810252016090.375-100000@picnic.mat.net> <19981026125133.A2717@netmonger.net> <19981029012621.A26396@nuxi.com> <E0zZEYK-000047-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk> <19981101164732.A22829@nuxi.com>

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In <19981101164732.A22829@nuxi.com>, David O'Brien wrote: 
> On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 01:25:20PM +0000, Dom Mitchell wrote:
> > To be frank, I think that pdksh is definitely something that we should 
> > be looking at for that reason alone.  If we import it into the tree
> > and leave it installed as /bin/ksh, then people can test it at their
> > leisure to see if it is worth replacing /bin/sh, and we also gain a
> > ksh.  It's a good situation.
> 
> This sounds like a good compromise.   Unless there is serious objections,
> I'll look into doing this.

Well, the only objection is that this doesn't offer much over having a
ksh port/package that is marked required by ports that can't live with
FreeBSD's sh. 

On the other hand, it bloats the base system by ~320 KB (statically
linked) and since it isn't used by anything in the base system, people
will probably object against it.

Martin
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