On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:32:16AM +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > On Thursday 05 Jul 2012 13:09:05 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > ... something like this would be *really* valuable to ease > > > the transition for people coming from a Linux background. > > > > I'm sure some folks here would count this as a reason *not* > > to provide it >:-> > > > > I think the idea is quite silly all in all - There are 23k Ports a lot of > which will have executeables - so everytime I make a typo - a database with - > say 30,000-40,000 elements and give me a list back of things I could install > from say the russian ports - I don't speak russian. I suggest looking at > extending locate(1) or apropos(1) instead. Installed as a default in the > shell > I would count as a major reason to abandon FreeBSD. >
I would consider abandoning a OS that you originally installed for its functionality pretty silly but hey ... its a free world. And so is diabling things or choosing a optin. -- - (2^(N-1)) _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
