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Originally Posted by szopin View Post
We can afford running full blown (pun unintended) and featured linux distro with the latest and greatest (gplv3 even)
Agreed. But the bash availability on N900 is hardly a replacement for busybox upgrade (and we're stuck with busybox as core /bin/sh, no matter if we like it, or not), it's just nice additional thing to have.

Now, some people argued that we don't need upstream updates to busybox (including security ones) - that busybox-power provides - in CSSU, cause we can install bash, anyway. Which is assumption broken by design, as we can either use bash AND still have ash as core /bin/sh, or only use ASH for everything.

Summing it up, my whole point was that bash isn't "cure for your all shell related needs, cancer, poverty, and all world problems combined", especially on N900. It doesn't substitute busybox updates, and busybox-power SHOULD be part of CSSU. Shame on CSSU maintainers that it isn't as there are no rational/meritocratic reasons for it, only political bash-loving and ash-hating (and letting arrogant buffoons to act as CSSU advisors *waves to joerg*, which fortunately, is thing of the past, already).

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