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

2012-07-05 Thread Jason Hellenthal
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:32:16AM +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > On Thursday 05 Jul 2012 13:09:05 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Doug Barton wrote: > > > ... something like this would be *really* valuable to ease > > > the transition for people coming from a Linux background. > > > > I'm

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

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 05 Jul 2012 13:09:05 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Doug Barton 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 >:-> >

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

2012-07-04 Thread perryh
Doug Barton 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 >:-> ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org m

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

2012-07-04 Thread Jason Hellenthal
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 11:11:10AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2012-Jul-04 19:10:08 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > >My first thought was to suggest it be a port as well, but I'm not sure > >that can be done sanely. > > The easiest way is probably to implement some form of generic "command > not

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

2012-07-04 Thread Jason Hellenthal
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 04:44:48PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 07/04/2012 16:41, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 03:59:29PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 07/04/2012 15:55, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >>> Seeing as sudo plays a big part of this > >> > >> No ... n

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

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Jul-04 19:10:08 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: >My first thought was to suggest it be a port as well, but I'm not sure >that can be done sanely. The easiest way is probably to implement some form of generic "command not found" hook into sh(1) and tcsh(1) - in interactive mode, if a specific fun

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

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/04/2012 16:41, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 03:59:29PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 07/04/2012 15:55, Jason Hellenthal wrote: >>> Seeing as sudo plays a big part of this >> >> No ... not only is sudo not a necessary component, it shouldn't be >> involved at all.

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

2012-07-04 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:01:40 -0700 Doug Barton wrote: > On 07/04/2012 15:57, Yuri wrote: > > On 07/04/2012 15:08, Doug Barton wrote: > >> 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 yo

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

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/04/2012 15:57, Yuri wrote: > On 07/04/2012 15:08, Doug Barton wrote: >> 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 >> t