Subject: Re: test: ==: unexpected operator
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/23/2006 14:18:01
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 07:29:05AM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> I'm one of the persons against this change, please back it out until
> it's resolved.

I fully agree -- this is a completely useless and actively dangerous
bashism. It serves no practical purpose beside making /bin/sh even less
POSIX and test should not derivate from POSIX if possible either.

This is not only a problem for pkgsrc on !NetBSD, !Linux, but even for
older NetBSD releases.

Joerg