Luke Small said: > There are other features that inexperienced users could benefit from, like > selecting a mirror for PKG_PATH and putting it into .profile . I think that > it would be convenient to be able have a new user not to have to wade > through man pages to learn about "echo " PKG_PATH..." >> /root/.profile" or > learn vi to install kde or gnome or an easier to use text editor like pico. > I suspect you are driving away folks by making it only useable by folks > that REALLY want to use it and it doesn't have to be that way.
Ironically installer creates /etc/pkg.conf with package path set to mirror used during installation. That puts "easier" editors like pico, as wel as gnome and kde, just one pkg_add away. On the other hand, if someone doesn't want to learn shell syntax and other Unix basics, we would do a misservice by hiding the fact that this knowledge is strictly necessary on OpenBSD. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
