Arch Linux

Description:

I believe ZSH should be rebuilt without support for GDBM via the --disable-gdbm configure flag. All it does is allow you to use a GDBM database such as a ZSH hash, but it adds a "dependency" on /usr. If i have ZSH set as my /bin/sh or my default shell for all users and my system gets borked and /usr/lib goes away for some reason, ZSH will fail to start, leaving me mostly stranded (except chroot). GDBM is the only library ZSH is built against that is not in /lib . Also, it's great the ZSH is treated as a "first-class citizen" in Arch with being put into /bin, but if it's built against a library in /usr, does that really matter?

Also, in the same screw-up situation i mentioned, bash would be fine since its only built against libc6 and libreadline which are both in /lib, so why should ZSH not get similar treatment.

The other option (i suppose) would be to rebuild gdbm with / as the prefix/path, but that would also require the rebuild of ~22 other packages.