[Nix-dev] Dealing with non-Bash /bin/sh on non-NixOS

Peter Simons simons at cryp.to
Fri Nov 9 19:23:14 CET 2012


Hi Eelco,

 > What I meant was that in Nixpkgs you shouldn't assume that /bin/sh is
 > Bash, because we obviously don't control that on non-NixOS systems.

right, I completely agree. I don't understand, however, why you seem to
insist that /bin/sh must be Bash on NixOS.

Why do you think that's so important?

Take care,
Peter



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