Re: PKGBASE Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature

someone had creative idea to replace csh with sh without porting "useless" features over. partial history search is one example. thankfully csh is still there. i get that some people use bash everywhere as interactive shell which i don't. funnily i can't even find way to configure it in bash? i've always used that feature since 4.6 and i would be surprised if answer is nobody needs that. it was added and enabled for a reason. how come now we say it's not needed? sh got several interactive use help features but who decided and what? i expect many fbsd users and dev have used it way before 4.6. was it like bash all the way or...? noone even used csh? the default? if so, why was the shell csh until now? why was it even changed? and why was it changed to sh? granted, no other shells but. maybe we could upgrade sh so you can also interactively actually use it. but for now i just need to change it back


p.s.: i also never got and never get why there's tendency to bully users off of using some software. csh is one of them



On August 1, 2025 5:22:18 PM GMT+03:00, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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>[1] I’ve noticed on fresh installs, the default shell no longer has working persistent history, which is a *big* POLA violation, if people want to complain about something.