I just figure that adding a little complexity that doesn't adversely affect security, to ease initial entry into the system for new users could be good. pkg_add initialization and mirror selection can be automated in a way to not discourage someone from picking up a fresh install and running with it. Maybe I could even add an automatic pinging heuristic to select the lowest latency mirror.
On 12/26/15, Christoph R. Murauer <[email protected]> wrote: > Quote from dan mclaughlin : > > [ ... ] >> (i am really starting to feel for the devs. this gets wearying.) > [ ... ] >> whenever i want something to work the way i want, i just script around >> it. >> the beauty of unix. > > Explains it very good. I personally think, OpenBSD is simple not for > Luke. What Luke does, is simple unfair towards the developers and also > towards new users which are willing to learn and maybe use OpenBSD > only as users. > > For Luke, read the following : > > http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html > > Do your homework before you post > [ ... ] the FAQ and the relevant man pages (start with afterboot(8)), > and check the mailing list archives. We want to help, but we wouldn't > want to deprive you of a valuable learning experience, and no one > wants to see the same question on the lists for the fifth time in a > month. > > Respect differences in opinion and philosophy > Intelligent people may look at the same set of facts and come to very > different conclusions. Repeating the same points that didn't convince > someone previously rarely changes their mind and irritates all the > other readers. > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html > > 8.14 - What web browsers are available for OpenBSD? - for lynx and the > relevant discussions about it at misc@. > > 14.6 - Soft Updates - for softdep > > 8.21 - Does OpenBSD support any journaling filesystems? - for softdep > yes or no. > > 1.11 - Why is/isn't ProductX included? > Why isn't there a graphical or curses(3) based installer? > For a number of reasons, including the goal of keeping the > installation boot media able to be a single floppy disk, the fact that > one installer can be used on all platforms in all configurations, and > the fact that after the second or third OpenBSD install, most users > find the OpenBSD installation system among the fastest and easiest > installers of any OS. Most developers and users greatly prefer the > speed, power, and ease of use of the current installer to any of the > more "colorful" or "pretty" installers on some other platforms. > > In most cases, these topics have been discussed in painful detail on > the mail lists, please see archives if you need more information. - > for your (Javascript) installer idea. > > 14.2 - Using fdisk(8) > 14.3 - Using OpenBSD's disklabel(8) > 14.21 - How do I use softraid(4)? + man page - for full disc encryption. > > And yes, it is expected, that you can handle this tools befor > installing the system ! > > 15.2.2 - Making things easy: PKG_PATH - to define more then one mirrors. > > You should stop to reninvent the wheel or, to create problems where > are none. > You should start to RTFM (Reed The Fucking Manuals) or, buy a OpenBSD > relevant book - as others also did. > You also should do the following *shutup and hack* instead of always > complaining. > > Let's say your idea for pkg_add is cool, let's say you make a clean > install or a update using bsd.rd and, let's also say, that you have no > supported network device - without the firmware from > firmware.openbsd.org ... what's next ? > > > -- -Luke
