Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?
Ian Lepore
freebsd at damnhippie.dyndns.org
Wed Jul 4 22:39:33 UTC 2012
On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 15:08 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 07/04/2012 15:01, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:19:38 -0700
> > Doug Barton <dougb at 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?
>
> Doug
>
The only response I can think of is... If you can even ask that
question, then there's no answer I could give that would make any sense
to you.
-- Ian
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