install-prompt for missing features (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

[Jason Hellenthal]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:32:16AM +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote:
> On Thursday 05 Jul 2012 13:09:05 perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > Doug Barton <dougb at 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.

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