[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#620898: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

[Steve Langasek]

Thanks for looking at this!  I'd definitely be happy to see a solution that
lets us shrink our Essential set without making the system less robust.

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 01:49:17AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > If login worked consistently in the face of the configured shell going
> > missing (automatically falling back to /bin/sh for root), then I think it
> > would be worthwhile to do the work necessary to remove bash from the
> > essential set.  But until then, the primary purpose of Essential, to me, is
> > the "minimal set guaranteed to be usable" aspect, not the "you don't have to
> > depend on it" aspect.

> That's more or less what the attached patch does.

Yes, it seems to handle the missing-shell case.  What about the case of
execle() failing?  It's at least as likely for a shell to be broken because
its dependencies are not yet unpacked as it is that it's broken because the
shell itself is not unpacked.

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