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Date:	Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:21:24 -0700
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Eric Blake wrote:

> coreutils already requires libintl and libiconv since 5.2.1 days, so most
> useful actions in a postinstall script have already depended on having
> libraries available as part of Base.  Based on several months of no
> complaints, I think we can discount the theoretical problems of this scenario.

Postinstall scripts almost universally have /bin/sh in the shebang, and
so were using ash regardless of which bash was installed.  The recent
replacement of /bin/sh with bash means that prior to now we had no
experience in this area.

Brian

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