On 07/05/2012 02:10 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Jul 4, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 07/04/2012 15:01, Mike Meyer wrote: >>> On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:19:38 -0700 >>> Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> On 07/04/2012 11:51, Jason Hellenthal wrote: >>>>> What would be really nice here is a command wrapper hooked into the >>>>> shell so that when you type a command and it does not exist it presents >>>>> you with a question for suggestions to install somewhat like Fedora has >>>>> done. >>>> I would also like to see this feature, which is pretty much universal in >>>> linux at this point. It's very handy. >>> >>> I, on the other hand, count it as one of the many features of Linux >>> that make me use FreeBSD. >> >> First, I agree that being able to turn it off should be possible. But I >> can't help being curious ... why would you *not* want a feature that >> tells you what to install if you type a command that doesn't exist on >> the system? > > Because I find on Linux it often gets it wrong and winds up being useless > noise. Mostly, though, it is because I mistype commands more than I type > commands that should be there, but aren't.
It might be useful to adapt a concept from Gentoo's app-portage/pfl package. It has two components. The first is a cron job that runs weekly. It will report all files installed by portage and which packages own them to an online database. The second is the e-file command, which will query that database for whatever follows it. For example, if I want to find out which package installs repoman, I can do `e-file repoman`. I can also do `e-file /usr/bin/repoman`. if FreeBSD had an equivalent to this command, this command, then I imagine that calls for Ubuntu/Fedora features should cease. Gentoo users seem to be happy with e-file.
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