Santiago Vila wrote: > Guy Maor wrote: > > bash will never become nonessential. > > How can you know? I don't think it really matters. The proposed policy is to use an explicit #!/bin/bash for all scripts that require bash. If, one day, we decide that bash should not be essential, a simple scan for such scripts will give us a list of packages to fix. There is no need to worry about it now. Richard Braakman