Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:35:37 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, "R.I.Pienaar" <rip@pinetec.co.za>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux user meta port Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002021706150.11268-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000202123022.A2477@wopr.caltech.edu>
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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
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