From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 2 05:29:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA00958 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 05:29:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA00951 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 05:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA26561; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 08:30:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id IAA05013; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 08:30:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 08:30:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca Reply-To: hoek@hwcn.org To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Annelise Anderson , Francisco Reyes , FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: Why Not Make tcsh the default shell? In-Reply-To: <22438.867842653@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Of course, correctly determining such context and writing all the > "click the start menu at any time for new feature selection" user > hand-holding code which enumerates the options properly is something > which takes Real Work(tm), and it's rarely through lack of vision that > these sorts of mechanisms don't exist, but rather lack of time. :-( No, it doesn't take any Real Work(c). Sysinstall already allows the user to read docs before beginning the install. A short blurb can be added to one of those docs. I don't think the README would be unsuitable (although I can envision arguments against it). A well-written explanation of the default installation is not required, nor one of the proposed additional packages. I think a simple "To make the most of your FreeBSD installation you may also want to install some of the following packages . You will have an opportunity to browse the complete list of packages available after the installation is finished." May want to mention something about those packages which are only available as ports. Hmm... Offhand, the first things I installed where bash, jetpack, fvwm, lrzsz, zip/unzip, ircii, lynx, xboing, and xonix. Making a list, I would remove jetpack and add a number of others. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk