Termux-packages: Do not mark `bash` as essential.

[pthfdr-42]

Firstly, it was not forced in the previous versions.
Secondly, there is already dash, and Android has mksh as a default shell.
Why do you force a bloated shell onto every Termux user?

[xeffyr]

Many things are relying on bash, so you will be forced to have bash installed anyway. Bash also is small package ~1.5 mb.

If you don't like bash, use chsh to set default shell.

[pthfdr-42]

There is another solution: Make everything POSIX-compilant, so you can use any shell.

[xeffyr]

What should be POSIX compliant ? You mean that we have to review and patch if needed any package to force use $PREFIX/bin/sh ?

That what you are requesting called customization and shouldn't be done widely.

Bash is a shell no. 1 in all major Linux distributions. In Debian it marked as essential for obvious reasons same as in Termux.

Solutions for you:

1. If you afraid bash - then you can throw it away with dpkg --purge --force-all bash.

1. You always can replace it without uninstalling package:

ln -sf /system/bin/sh $PREFIX/bin/bash

[xeffyr]

If you need a posix compliant shell, then do chsh -s dash.

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Seems that topic should be called Holy war between POSIX and non-POSIX shells actually.