From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 12 23:06:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 09CABA69; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f05:b76::196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91E9893; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from u10-2-16-021.office.norse-data.com (unknown [50.204.88.51]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 99B35346DE07; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54137C8D.9020506@mu.org> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:06:53 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Rodrigues Subject: Re: shells/bash port, add a knob which symlinks to /bin/bash ? References: <20140912214004.GT6096@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54136D5D.3090905@mu.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:06:50 -0000 On 9/12/14 3:23 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > I could live with this solution of additional port outside of the main > bash port, which creates the symlink and updates /etc/shells. > > One other thing I am seeing is that many, many shell scripts are > written assuming "#!/bin/bash". > Forcing all upstream script writers to switch to "#!/usr/bin/env bash", or > to convert their scripts to "#!/bin/sh" and remove all bash-specific > behaviors, is getting harder and harder, > since many people are exposed to MacOS X and Linux on desktops. > Lol, or we could hack the image activator. :) -Alfred