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Originally Posted by ai-danno
And that's nothing to scoff at- I believe you could call it a 'best practice' to keep your servers as lean as possible on the application installations. If you can accomplish what you need with what's already installed... then do so.
The other thing is that the rest of the OBSD community (as a whole, anyway) uses the default KSH... so you would be in better company using KSH instead.
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Add to that the ease of upgrading from one release to the next. Ports can be deprecated and removed, causing all sorts of configuration problems. At least if you keep to using the base, when something changes, it will be well-documented, with any necessary changes plainly spelled out. Just take a look at any Upgrade Guide.