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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by asdfv09s9d80fu9 on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:18PM (#20090824)
How's using homebrew any of this different than being able to run "base64" and "uuidgen" on Windows? It's not like either of those applications are part of a Windows installation anyway.
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by AaronFriel on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:22PM (#20091189)
That's my point. Why can't Apple ship an updated userland built in, through the Store, or as a download triggered by a command line (like XCode is).
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by oneplane on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @03:40AM (#20092793)
Because GPL v3 says you have to run modified binaries and that means Apple has to give its private keys.
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by saagarjha on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @06:46AM (#20093708)
No? You just resign the binary with your key.
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by patates on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @05:30AM (#20102713)
I'm sorry, this is totally off-topic but I had to re-read your comment 5 times until it became apparent that you meant re-sign, not surrender. English is funny sometimes (especially when you're not a native speaker like me:) ).
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by saagarjha on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @05:36AM (#20102728)
It's a good point; I'll keep it in mind when using the word in the future :)
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by oneplane on Thursday June 06, 2019 @11:05AM (#20115239)
You can't if the binary is a SIP-protected binary, and you can't use all signing features unless you disable SIP (for certain entitlements AFAIK)
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by AaronFriel on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @10:48PM (#20101084)
Why do they have to run modified binaries?
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by adrianN on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @04:53AM (#20102568)
Because that's one of the rights users of GPLv3 software have.
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