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Re: Why is Desktop NetBSD a threat to NetBSD?



Ah, sorry, I am criss-crossing threads here quite a lot I guess.

My point is that _everyone_ else in the "desktop" space is getting X
working without any user intervention at all.  Right off the install CD.
The installer is an X app!

I.e. you're not in the "desktop" marketplace unless you have X working
right away out of the box without any fiddling whatsoever.

However if you can't get X (and wireless, and maybe file shares and
printing) working without needing a terminal based text editor to be
used from the ASCII/ANSI console then you're not in the "desktop"
marketplace and so there's no need to worry about pretending to provide
a half-baked bunch of packages that might eventually work together to
build a desktop environment -- nobody wanting a desktop system is going
to get that far anyway, regardless of whether they can learn to use a
text editor or not.

On the other hand if you do have X working right away though, we already
ship xedit so the user already has a working simple text editor and thus
the other thread about adding a user-friendly terminal based text editor
to the base NetBSD install is pointless.  :-)

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