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

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 7/5/12 7:18 PM, Warner Losh 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.
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>>> 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.
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> Warner
> 


As a matter of fact, I for one dislike the idea of a feature that
suggests packages to install.

I hate it on linux, and I would hate it here as well.

I would definitely be turning it off (or keeping it disabled,
whichever), however I can see why some people would want such a feature
and use it.