From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 4 22:39:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA911065672 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:39:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275558FC08 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.59]) by qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id WNbJ1j0011GXsucA7NfTNi; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:39:27 +0000 Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org ([24.8.232.202]) by omta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id WNfS1j00R4NgCEG8UNfTiE; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:39:27 +0000 Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q64MdOmN006561; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 16:39:24 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) From: Ian Lepore To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <4FF4BEED.10103@FreeBSD.org> References: <4FF2E00E.2030502@FreeBSD.org> <86bojxow6x.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4FF35864.5030109@FreeBSD.org> <20120704185104.GA42355@DataIX.net> <4FF4B36A.2040608@FreeBSD.org> <20120704180134.7c649e1b@bhuda.mired.org> <4FF4BEED.10103@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:39:24 -0600 Message-ID: <1341441564.1097.50.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:39:33 -0000 On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 15:08 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 07/04/2012 15:01, Mike Meyer wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:19:38 -0700 > > Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 07/04/2012 11:51, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >>> What would be really nice here is a command wrapper hooked into the > >>> shell so that when you type a command and it does not exist it presents > >>> you with a question for suggestions to install somewhat like Fedora has > >>> done. > >> I would also like to see this feature, which is pretty much universal in > >> linux at this point. It's very handy. > > > > I, on the other hand, count it as one of the many features of Linux > > that make me use FreeBSD. > > First, I agree that being able to turn it off should be possible. But I > can't help being curious ... why would you *not* want a feature that > tells you what to install if you type a command that doesn't exist on > the system? > > Doug > The only response I can think of is... If you can even ask that question, then there's no answer I could give that would make any sense to you. -- Ian