From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 2 08:41:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA10866 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 08:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA10861 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 08:41:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA20373; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 11:41:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA00941; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 11:41:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 11:41:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca Reply-To: hoek@hwcn.org To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" cc: hoek@hwcn.org, FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: Why Not Make tcsh the default shell? In-Reply-To: <33BA8989.233A@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > The problem here (IMO) is classification: how do you decide which ports > are good or which are bad? Should we start rating them with *stars* like > movies? Even if we recommend certain ports to new users, if they don't > learn how to add packages they are losing the Big Picture (TM). I was a little worried that creating a list of "suggested packages for unfamiliar UNIX users" might conceviably offend some, and rating them with stars seems going somewhat farther! -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk