/usr boot time dependencies

Michael K. Johnson johnsonm at redhat.com
Wed Aug 20 13:18:01 UTC 2003


On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 07:13:24AM +0200, Florian La Roche wrote:
> "sort -u" is a GNU extension. I am not sure we should rely on it.

It's incredibly common and we could never replace our sort implementation
with one that did not implement -u.  When relying on it will speed up
the boot process, ignoring it would be silly.

> > use the bash EUID builtin variable :)
> 
> I don't think we should add further things that rely on bash specifics.

Other advanced shells have similar things.

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