From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 2 14:36:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23EE54123 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:36:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA11615; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:35:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:35:37 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: Matthew Hunt Cc: Alexander Langer , "R.I.Pienaar" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux user meta port In-Reply-To: <20000202123022.A2477@wopr.caltech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi guys, On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Matthew Hunt wrote: > If you want Linux people to feel comfortable, why not just > "cd /usr/ports && make install"? > > Just kidding, sort of. This would certainly take care of RedHat users. :-) In general though I think this port is a good idea, but other than the obvious "bash" (I assume you're using the bash2 port) I wouldn't know what else to add to it that you haven't already listed other than pine which someone else mentioned. Just installing bash won't help in some ways though - the user's default shell will still be csh unless they change it themselves and I'm not convinced that all users even know how to change their shell... There should probably be a long text file associated w/ this and a post-install command like $ECHO "Please read the file${PREFIX}/share/doc/former-linux-user.txt" $ECHO "to see what has been installed and how to best replicate your" $ECHO "previous Linux environment." Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message