Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 10:32:16 +0100 From: Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install-prompt for missing features (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?) Message-ID: <201207051032.16451.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <4ff583e1.p5DKDON6DEU%2BCQRo%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <CA%2BQLa9B-Dm-=hQCrbEgyfO4sKZ5aG72_PEFF9nLhyoy4GRCGrA@mail.gmail.com> <4FF4CB54.1060004@FreeBSD.org> <4ff583e1.p5DKDON6DEU%2BCQRo%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Thursday 05 Jul 2012 13:09:05 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > 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 >:-> > 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.
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