> Am 13.07.2019 um 15:22 schrieb Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>: > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 08:12:09AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: >> I really don't see how we can arrange things so that a large number of >> people with different preconceived notions can guess correctly without >> reading the dozen-line files provided to explain things to them. > > Conservative defaults is the answer. And what is conservative depends on > what people are used to in a given community. Conservative in the sense of we have some habits that we like to stick to. > NetBSD/pkgsrc communities are conservative in terms of installing minimal > things. (Or so I believe.) Yeah, maybe. I just use the *-base packages to install base functionality. As of today, we have 36 such packages including wip. > If such a community gives me a package named git, having been used to > their conservativeness (as perceived by me and mentioned above), I'd not > expect it to be bloated with gui. While you are expecting that, I beg to differ in that I expect that only when a package is not a meta-package in that it hat an accompanying -base or some sort of sub-packages. But I build everything from source, so I don’t know the implications of using things like pkgin might have on my mindset. Cheers Oskar
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