Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 19:34:38 +0200 From: Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?) Message-ID: <CABzXLYOwLFGbYzWhCL2TbRSKidRRypddDQO__0Ot6RXpSbb3Vw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <EAA0281B-63E6-42AA-A5B9-B84494CE9675@bsdimp.com> References: <CA%2BQLa9B-Dm-=hQCrbEgyfO4sKZ5aG72_PEFF9nLhyoy4GRCGrA@mail.gmail.com> <20120705082857.GB37083@server.rulingia.com> <4FF55864.8040807@FreeBSD.org> <201207051215.44799.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <4FF5BF27.2030609@my.gd> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207051838440.3799@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4FF5C48C.9030106@my.gd> <EAA0281B-63E6-42AA-A5B9-B84494CE9675@bsdimp.com>
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2012/7/5 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>:
>
> On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>> Just because you don't like the idea doesn't make it stupid, and just
>> because it comes from linux doesn't make it bad.
>
> Both true. However, if the database lookups took a long time, or had a high overhead to maintain, then it would be stupid to have on by default.
Yes.
And that's why I disagree for turning this kind of feature on by default.
I "feel" when I'm under an Ubuntu (or other desktop-centric distro)
shell because of the delay after trying to execute, for examble, a
mis-typed command. Sometimes it takes so much time to respond that I
think the command was good, and go drink a coffee. Only to find out
that no, it was just bloatware running. FreeBSD is so responsive as it
is. I posted "time" results in another thread, and an Ubuntu Server
took half a second to respond "command not found" at the first try,
and it was a multi-GHz multi-core class CPU with multi-GB of RAM and
multi-hard drive on a RAID. A not so old laptop I have takes ages to
lookup that database ! Wouldn't PC-BSD be a better place for that ?
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