Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 12:10:17AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> 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.

It is even cooler than I thought initially. It punishes you for making
typos:) Cool.

I think this is very useful for newcomers. The only thing that is
missing is a one-liner how to disable this feature next to instruction
how to install a package containing the missing command.

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