On 23 August 2012 22:59, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > No, POLA refers to not changing long-established practices out from > under the user.
forget pola > > I tend to agree with Steve here ... we can't be responsible for other > people's poorly written docs. This isn't about poorly written docs. This is the user expecting a tool to exist, which doesn't. Take another example of a sysadmin which rarely installs new systems, installs FreeBSD for the third time, and then gets confused when "pkg install vim" fails. > You bring up a valid point that we should > keep in mind for our own however. The bootstrapping issue will be the > smallest possible annoyance on a long road of the migration process. The bootstrapping issue is a factor even after the migration :) > OTOH this is a good use case for the "prompt the user when they type a > command for something that can be installed from ports" idea. :) even this is fine, provided that *for the command called pkg* it is on by default. note that I'm not talking about the mechanism here, I'm trying to avoid "pkg doesn't seem to be installed on my fresh system" becoming a FAQ. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
