Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

[Mike Meyer]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:32:19 -0400
"Dieter BSD" <dieterbsd at engineer.com> wrote:
> >> Why not create a command wtf(1)?
> > there are really lot of good features that can be made in FreeBSD.
> > actually good, instead of that crap
> While this is certainly not the most important improvement that could
> be made (Fix the PRs!), the proposed wtf command could be useful.

And it's been suggested a number of times on this thread. The proposed
path is:

1) Write the WTF (or portsearch, or ...) command that can take a
command name and return a list of suggested ports. Make it a port,
since that's pretty much a zero-resistance move.

2) Add code to the port to use the *existing* hooks in some of the
shells in ports (bash and zsh both have this, for instance) to invoke
said command appropriately when they hit a command-not-found error.

3) Let people evaluate and play with that.

4) Now decide if we want this command in the base system. If the
answer is mostly no, stop here.

5) Propose a patch to your favorite shell in the base system so the
functionality added in step 2 will work in it as well.

I'm not going to do this - this is the kind of thing that makes me
loathe Linux. But if you want this functionality in your/the base
system, your first step is clear - write the WTF program! Until that
exists, the rest is just pointless debating.

	<mike

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