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  • From: "lynx AT codemages.net" <lynx AT codemages.net>
  • To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] RFC: Shortcuts for reducing base system breakage
  • Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 07:02:44 +0200

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:58:44 +0200 Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote

> Am Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:04:35 -0300
> schrieb Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>:
>
> > We might be able to reduce base system breakage to a minimum by
> > carefully choosing which spells we depend upon, e.g. bash and gawk had
> > break badly in the past.
>
> Switching to different tools/libraries is a separate matter from
> keeping the basic sorcery operation alive, IMHO. Tucking away a tree of
> static tools to be used by sorcery independent of the normal casts that
> would help regardless of using mawk or gawk. I'm not saying that
> alternatives shouldn't be explored, just that I feel that this can
> easily result in other yet unknown issues.
Btw, unless someone removed that part, bash is always also compiled into a
static bin/bash.static for any emergencies.

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