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Date:      Sat, 7 Jul 2012 10:35:16 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)
Message-ID:  <CADLo83_qKn8iPRb%2ByPeTVQnyVU1G=3xgbLiqxusDQs7PWZLQOA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207071123460.45763@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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> <20120706201721.GB1437@garage.freebsd.pl> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207071123460.45763@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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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



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