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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!conrads From: conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Suggested package for next release (xless) Date: 4 Oct 1996 00:54:34 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 39 Message-ID: <531n8a$8kb@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <52sjn8$4oi@uuneo.neosoft.com> <52ukfr$r2@shimon.netmedia.net.il> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.134 In article <52ukfr$r2@shimon.netmedia.net.il>, Steve Birnbaum <sbirn@bofh.org.il> wrote: >In article <52sjn8$4oi@uuneo.neosoft.com>, >Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote: > >>Come to think of it, emacs should me indicated as a dependency as well, as >>the Edit command calls it by default. > >This was a joke, right? How big is xfm? How big is emacs? > >*shudder* > >I can just see the guy sitting on the end of a 28.8 line. >If you're so picky about defaults, just ask whoever compiles the package >to change the default editor to xterm -e vi. Yeah, alright. :-) Could have put a little more thought into that one. Actually, nedit would be a reasonable choice for this, I think. >>As FreeBSD becomes more popular, more care should be given to making it >>easier for the first-time user (or out-and-out UNIX newbie). > >No matter how easy you make it, the user is still going to log in and see > >$ > >Everyone's got to start learning somewhere anyway. Sure, but at least, once you've reached the point of knowing how to use pkg_manage, it should be a trivial task to select a package and have all the necessary dependencies installed as well. -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |