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

[Shea Levy]

On 11/09/2012 01:23 PM, Peter Simons wrote:
> 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?

Because (as this thread illustrates) that will break things, to almost 
no gain. It's one thing to test locally with a dash /bin/sh to find 
packages with bad assumptions, it's another thing to break packages that 
currently work perfectly well for the vast majority of nix users.

> Take care,
> Peter
>
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