I’d like to use Bash as users’ default shell. What should I specify for users.defaultUserShell: bash or bashInteractive? Why does a separate bashInteractive even exist?
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Just leave it at it’s default, that’s already bash IIRC.
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IIUC:
- it’s beneficial (for closure-size reasons? IDK if it also affects initialization/run time) to have a smaller bash for scripting/build/test uses
- for historical reasons, the full-featured interactive bash was added to nixpkgs after the basic build, so it’s the one with the more specific name (there’s an incomplete effort to flip this around, see treewide: bash -> bashNonInteractive & bashInteractive -> bash by Artturin · Pull Request #151227 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub)
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