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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by bbarnett on Sunday November 02, 2025 @01:28AM (#45788031)
Whether with a base install via the installer, or debootstrap, I've never seen bash missing.

For clarity, 'sh' is what is softlinked to dash. Not bash.

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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by kees99 on Sunday November 02, 2025 @03:48AM (#45788824)
> 'sh' is softlinked to dash. Not bash.

And for a good reason. Dash is so much faster for small scripts that call each other. Back in a pre-systemd days, when init was done by a mountain of shell scripts, changing that symlink between bash and dash resulted in twice/half the boot time on some systems.

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