From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 5 09:32:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2939106564A for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:32:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thomas.sparrevohn@btinternet.com) Received: from nm22-vm1.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm22-vm1.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [212.82.109.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DC3D8FC0C for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:32:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.233] by nm22.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jul 2012 09:32:17 -0000 Received: from [212.82.108.224] by tm14.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jul 2012 09:32:17 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1001.bt.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jul 2012 09:32:17 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 746361.36500.bm@omp1001.bt.mail.ird.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 17824 invoked from network); 5 Jul 2012 09:32:17 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=btinternet.com; h=DKIM-Signature:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=irVnwagpqE4MMzcyZGTYfdJ33LwdWG4nzV+ieEbf7IaQvGza53PgF7SGHOjuTh0AaP3jUIMjLjtLr9hCnEAGnW1rmxBkA6eohn7b/nl7SI4j8fW+eGt6Yn2d+d4gcjBwgkQr6McKnonIEY75/7jhMVfANa2uKEDdk4c2BJ7ESSc= ; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=btinternet.com; s=s1024; t=1341480737; bh=4LBxLoctM86pY07vgKirT2c3emsypvVlxFd11lxet9E=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=yBZwTG4QDMIsBF+JEV8clnflh5JnKb14Ua7W0ftbTOsiZN1J4+X5j/nVT6Qmd53vjgqQvIzRly5bfhIWF9/KwYcHls4+BlU7maAsTLWMAaRb5awiGdo6fajYCLhhaLz00s9th6OWrFPQfoyuz6N37L2EtaaISGEeMiIj4MLNjEc= X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: IzulLkUVM1n07zfBDI1iToj2zsCYuLHAg.vIf87S0_Qv2zq 1p9xX_ysJhxgTL4Zf2gVUzzAvqo.ErLZofiwZJLuvhx8O99kC17hruoBWxHR R3CNjxRpzVdGTgEafGOvb2uVlKdXcHGSmeRQ8DL4U15iS8Q4rxuRXXapkHlm UWhsLel3KLENb6rh2KptQtju.tHkQbB9idaw3SthU3LiJco.Mjao7eSqJAeX BR6Edp.z3L6WezZaepB2lxL1vYO08l34269UttGvhECw2.U7p.XcSfPR9lRE v4fzf2Iho3UuMBofNpY6U_5K_w6PZzwSYwAuaiQPk03h.QYLzrDlbWLr7QR9 GNHlXYeKu3D0iqhiyQ3JXcE.62fa4l6zcL_Xz.DHGTj_4JoebkpOcPoEK02_ xyvhwCm1c5R3Bi43tWl75UjL8pTHlx8lLIw-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: IZRlAYqswBDptUXTX.cYc1l2h3YNYE0xlrpi4wWl.OMHg4FYv7uDnfZx6kQf Received: from thomas-freebsd.aah-go-on.com (Thomas.Sparrevohn@86.133.211.100 with plain) by smtp823.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 05 Jul 2012 02:32:17 -0700 PDT From: Thomas Sparrevohn To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 10:32:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/10.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.8.4; amd64; ; ) References: <4FF4CB54.1060004@FreeBSD.org> <4ff583e1.p5DKDON6DEU+CQRo%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4ff583e1.p5DKDON6DEU+CQRo%perryh@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201207051032.16451.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: install-prompt for missing features (Was: 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: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:32:25 -0000 On Thursday 05 Jul 2012 13:09:05 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Doug Barton 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 >:-> > I think the idea is quite silly all in all - There are 23k Ports a lot of which will have executeables - so everytime I make a typo - a database with - say 30,000-40,000 elements and give me a list back of things I could install from say the russian ports - I don't speak russian. I suggest looking at extending locate(1) or apropos(1) instead. Installed as a default in the shell I would count as a major reason to abandon FreeBSD.