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Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging (preining.info)
14 points by detaro on June 11, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


  rm /bin/sh
  ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
Oh shit. Please do not do this in your install scripts. Making permanent changes to core system utilities from an unrelated package seems like a level beyond the usual mistakes people make in third-party packages.


It's not like they didn't know about it...

https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-r-open/issues/20


Given how bad Microsoft is at Windows packaging (the next version of Visual Studio that can be unpinstalled cleanly will be the first) I'm not too surprised.




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