Re: Why is TERM=vt100 on the console?

[maya%netbsd.org@localhost]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:08:29AM +0000, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> 
> > Every time we have this discussion someone ends up saying that yes,
> > everything being terrible and not supporting anything modern is a
> > great default. they like it that way.
> 
> /etc/ttys uses wsvt25 on all ttyE* for a long long time.  It only uses
> vt100 for console, which may be a serial console, so vt100 is a safe
> default there.  If you know you don't use serial console you can edit
> 1 (one) line in ttys.  Do you really think this is "terrible"?

etc.sparc64/ttys:console	"/usr/libexec/getty suncons"	wsvt25 on secure

Why is sparc{,64} exempt from having shitty defaults? because people who
use it don't have to ask netbsd-users if they happen to use sufficiently
shitty hardware to justify shitty defaults?

x86 hardware doesn't even have console 99% of the time!
sysinst isn't a solution because sysinst barely supports amd64.