Re: [Sheflug] suse source rpms

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Al" == Alex Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

    >> RPM is Evil.

    Al> Is this an official declaration ? ;)

No.  But if it fools some people, I won't cry.  ;-)

    Al> what do they need bash changed for?

So that it works better on Red Hat systems, what did you think?

Basically, the idea is to use the shell's knowledge of the environment
to determine which binaries will be run, and trace them back to
packages for the purpose of computing dependencies for shell scripts.

If as Jules says `sh --rpm-requires bash' actually works, then this
REALLY sucks, because when invoked as `sh' bash is supposed to be
POSIXly correct.  (_Adding_ "features" is a no-no, since all right-
thinking admins use zsh as /bin/sh because among free shells it is the
nearest to POSIX correctness.)

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