Bug 152125

Summary:	RFE: Consider dropping pdksh from Suse/opensuse distribution
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Martin Schaffstall <martin.schaffstall>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	martin.schaffstall
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Martin Schaffstall 2006-02-20 00:10:16 UTC

RFE: Consider dropping pdksh from Suse/opensuse distribution

Justification:
- Suse already ships the official korn shell from AT&T (ksh 93)
- pdksh is no longer under active development
- pdksh only implements a subset of ksh88 and almost none of the ksh93 features - installing it as /bin/ksh results in serious portability issues when people expect a real korn shell there
- pdksh is damn buggy and crashes often when used as login shell
- The pdksh package wastes valueable space on the DVD/CDROMs

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-02-20 10:42:39 UTC

The maintainer should decide.

Comment 2 Dr. Werner Fink 2006-02-23 11:50:41 UTC

NO, we will NOT drop the pdksh.  The pdksh is currently the only
ksh-like shell with an absolute free license. The license model
of the original ksh forbids e.g. linkage with GPL programs.