On Wed, 7 Dec 94 16:19:26 EST 
 davem@nadzieja.rutgers.edu (David S. Miller) wrote:

 > I am new around here, but may I ask why distributing the GNU Bash
 > shell hasn't been considered? It can't be strictly because it is GPL'd
 > code because gcc is in netbsd (albeit an old version). Is it due to
 > the core size that bash can take up? If this is the case then bash can
 > be compiled to be more minimal, and bash is a completely POSIXized
 > shell. I welcome your thoughts....

Bash has long been used here as a substitute for ksh: i.e...

	/bin/ksh -> /usr/local/bin/bash

We have a lot of ksh users (because we have a lot of HP-UX machines) and 
the fact that we use YP so heavily leaves us looking for a 
ksh-substitute.  I personally would like to see a real ksh-compatible 
implementation in NetBSD...

My $0.02

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