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Diffstat (limited to 'debian')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/control | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index b92dfc648..9dca34d3c 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -101,7 +101,15 @@ Description: shell with lots of features (static link) shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a host of other features. . - This is the statically-compiled version of the shell. + This is the statically-compiled version of the shell, i.e. it doesn't + require any dynamically loaded libraries to be present and will work + even if libraries zsh (in general) needs are broken on the system. So + it's more robust in case of a broken system. + . + It though also has a few limitations compared to the normal, + dynamically linked, e.g. it can't use NSS related functionality which + might result in minor imperfections like e.g. user names being shown + in the prompt. Package: zsh-dev Architecture: any |