Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
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>> On 7/5/12 6:38 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>>> inexperienced users.
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>>>> Having to enable it manually defeats its very purpose.
>>>
>>> so is FreeBSD future direction to be moron-OS just like linux is now, or
>>> is that just another stupid idea on that forum that came and... will pass?
>>>
>>> Quite important. There are still people that want normal OS.
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>> 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.
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> 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.

Here's a *random* thought to consider. This seems like a feature that
FreeNAS/PC-BSD/etc (Linux/Windows/other OS convert) type thing might
want -- so maybe the feature should exist (but be off) in FreeBSD and
exist (and be on) in custom FreeBSD distros where users aren't
necessarily expected to know FreeBSD.

-Garrett