Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jul 5 06:10:21 UTC 2012
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 <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?
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.
Warner
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