You should decide on the kind of end user Belenix is targeting. If it is only system administrators or developers, then this might not be really required, although useful. On the other hand if its normal desktop users that Belenix is targeting, then such a feature would definitely help people who are considering belenix as their first (and hopefully only) Solaris distro. It would definitely add to the user friendliness.
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Sriram Narayanan<sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote: > All: > > Something that we could consider adding to Belenix would be what I > call "install hints" that the shell in Ubuntu provides. > > For e.g., in Ubuntu, if I were to try to run "screen" and if it were > not installed already but present as part of a package called > "screen-utils", then the Ubuntu bash shell would display the message > similar to "screen is not installed yet. Run apt-get install > screen-utils, and then screen". > > I just had an IM conversation with Moinak, and he felt that power > users would not like this feature. > > I think, however, that if we could selectively turn off this help, > then we could keep power users as well as newcomers happy. > > What do you think ? > > -- Sriram > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss > -- Angad Singh http://angadsingh.in
