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Subject: Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before
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On Jul 7, 2012 10:25 AM, "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
wrote:
>>
>> something they probably don't even know about, than to skilled users to
>> turn it off.
>>
>> If this feature is going to prints quite a few extra lines, let's just
>> add one more line saying:
>>
>>         To disable this message run: echo set 31337mode >> ~/.tcshrc
>>
>> --
>
> should i - from now, understand that this way of "extending" OS is
considered right (i mean going down to newbies instead of going up) by
FreeBSD developers?
>
> Please answer it is important for me, and many other people for a future.

This is not 'going down'. This is adding features to help newcomers.  You
are free to disable them.  It will not remove anything from FreeBSD.

I point to Doug's statement on elitism.

Chris