Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 19:10:08 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: install-prompt for missing features (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?) Message-ID: <20120704191008.0aa46225@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <4FF4CB54.1060004@FreeBSD.org> References: <CA%2BQLa9B-Dm-=hQCrbEgyfO4sKZ5aG72_PEFF9nLhyoy4GRCGrA@mail.gmail.com> <4FF2E00E.2030502@FreeBSD.org> <86bojxow6x.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4FF35864.5030109@FreeBSD.org> <CAC8HS2Hx%2BqV1zYSzyM6wYzbyA6BStd3HEwc-VDhv40DHM=qCvw@mail.gmail.com> <CAOjFWZ5ikPz_yDhEQutiXVG354qRHYJTn-M_S4Cx-=YRgFP7eQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120704185104.GA42355@DataIX.net> <4FF4B36A.2040608@FreeBSD.org> <20120704180134.7c649e1b@bhuda.mired.org> <4FF4BEED.10103@FreeBSD.org> <4FF4CA45.7070502@rawbw.com> <4FF4CB54.1060004@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:01:40 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On 07/04/2012 15:57, Yuri wrote:
> > 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.
My first thought was to suggest it be a port as well, but I'm not sure
that can be done sanely.
> Normally I would agree, but something like this would be *really*
> valuable to ease the transition for people coming from a Linux background.
So would installing all the GNU tools instead of our own. To me,
that's clearly a bad idea (yes, it's an ideological issue, but the
issue is UI design, *not* licenses).
For this kind of thing, I think a "linux tools" metaport (and
group/option in the installer) would be a better approach. Linux users
could then install one port, and possibly source a script in
/usr/local/etc in their .bashrc, and get a system/shell that acts as
much like some popular linux distro as the maintainers heart
desired. Nuts, it may even be easy to config it for different distros.
<mike
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