Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jul 5 17:18:08 UTC 2012


On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:

> 
> On 7/5/12 6:38 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> inexperienced users.
>>> 
>>> Having to enable it manually defeats its very purpose.
>> 
>> so is FreeBSD future direction to be moron-OS just like linux is now, or
>> is that just another stupid idea on that forum that came and... will pass?
>> 
>> Quite important. There are still people that want normal OS.
> 
> 
> Just because you don't like the idea doesn't make it stupid, and just
> because it comes from linux doesn't make it bad.

Both true.  However, if the database lookups took a long time, or had a high overhead to maintain, then it would be stupid to have on by default.

Warner



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