Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:40:33 -0400 From: Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net> To: Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install-prompt for missing features (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?) Message-ID: <20120705164033.GA35340@DataIX.net> In-Reply-To: <201207051032.16451.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> References: <CA%2BQLa9B-Dm-=hQCrbEgyfO4sKZ5aG72_PEFF9nLhyoy4GRCGrA@mail.gmail.com> <4FF4CB54.1060004@FreeBSD.org> <4ff583e1.p5DKDON6DEU%2BCQRo%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <201207051032.16451.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:32:16AM +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > 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. > I would consider abandoning a OS that you originally installed for its functionality pretty silly but hey ... its a free world. And so is diabling things or choosing a optin. -- - (2^(N-1))
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