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Date:      Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:57:09 -0700
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Subject:   Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?
Message-ID:  <4FF4CA45.7070502@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FF4BEED.10103@FreeBSD.org>
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On 07/04/2012 15:08, Doug Barton wrote:
> 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?

Given the potentially controversial nature of this feature, it's maybe 
best to almost completely isolate it from the base system and make it 
into a port.
When this port is installed and when some special environment variable 
points to its executable, shells would call this executable when an 
unknown command is typed by the user.
Such implementation should leave all parties happy. People who hate it 
just wouldn't install this port.

Yuri



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