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Subject: Re: install-prompt for missing features (Was: Re: Pull in upstream
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Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> ... something like this would be *really* valuable to ease
> the transition for people coming from a Linux background.

I'm sure some folks here would count this as a reason *not*
to provide it >:->