From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 03:25:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737A4106566C; Thu, 6 May 2010 03:25:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikel.king@olivent.com) Received: from mail.olivent.com (mail.olivent.com [75.99.82.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C548FC18; Thu, 6 May 2010 03:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.olivent.com (Kerio Connect 7.0.0 patch 1) (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES128-SHA (128 bits)); Wed, 5 May 2010 23:25:53 -0400 References: <4BE03042.5010806@ipv6canada.com> <4BE0A341.1010207@a1poweruser.com> <4BE0E8B1.3000802@a1poweruser.com> <4BE1E3FA.4010602@onetel.com> <4BE22F91.9000304@freebsd.org> Message-Id: <42A4AF3E-1AC6-4AFE-9FA7-5BE7C1055AEB@olivent.com> From: mikel king To: Randi Harper In-Reply-To: <4BE22F91.9000304@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 23:25:52 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , "questions@freebsd.org" , Chris Whitehouse Subject: Re: Addition to BSDstats X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 03:25:56 -0000 On May 5, 2010, at 10:55 PM, Randi Harper wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> >>> I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression >>> that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) >> >> There has been talk about adding it as an option to sysinstall, >> but, unfortunately, I don't have enough knowledge of sysinstall to >> add it, and nobody else has step'd forward that does ... the idea >> wasn't to auto-install/enable, but to make it more visible while >> you are installing ... >> >> Anyone out there able to do this ... ? > > I have not heard any talk about this up until this email. I wouldn't > want to add an option to sysinstall for this unless bsdstats was > part of base. If it were, this would be trivial, but I don't really > want to pop up any optional package menus other than what already > exists. > > -- randi This idea was mentioned a few years as a way to improve advocacy statistics. Something short and sweet, with a one or two line explanation encouraging people to install the BSDStats system. If it were a yes/no option similar to the "Would you like to install Linux Compatibility" then it would be a no brainer. Honestly this seems relatively unobtrusive and quite logical. Regards, Mikel King Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelking http://twitter.com/mikelking