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Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/audio/tunapie



On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:25:20AM +0100, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:12:36AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > What's the point of this?
> 
> Specifically, the point is that /bin/sh is broken on SunOS. Generally,
> assuming that /bin/sh will just happen to work is wrong, so thats what
> REPLACE_SH is for.

Changing every single package that installs a shell script is worse. I
don't buy the "/bin/sh on Solaris never works" reasoning. There are
enough things that to do work with it to not warrant a mechanical change
all over the place.

Joerg


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