From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22124 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2016 20:55:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 22175 Received: (qmail 17815 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2016 20:55:18 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mta03.eastlink.ca by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(24.224.136.9):SA:0(-3.7/5.0):. Processed in 0.652114 secs); 09 Dec 2016 20:55:18 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: rayandrews@eastlink.ca X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at _spf.eastlink.ca designates 24.224.136.9 as permitted sender) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=HKaBLclv c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=xPWM5QW5oS+lNOfUWk9MeA==:117 a=xPWM5QW5oS+lNOfUWk9MeA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=TZPq73ClBEkrhaReU60A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-EL-IP-NOAUTH: 24.207.97.144 Message-id: <584B1325.1010907@eastlink.ca> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:25:09 -0800 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: off topic References: <20161209122958.GD19559@256bit.org> <57127.1481294647@hydra.kiddle.eu> <584AC8AC.9050406@eastlink.ca> <62522.1481300922@hydra.kiddle.eu> <584AEDBF.2050402__19991.0537027337$1481307418$gmane$org@eastlink.ca> <20161209192406.GA27532@fujitsu.shahaf.local2> In-reply-to: <20161209192406.GA27532@fujitsu.shahaf.local2> Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 12/09/2016 11:24 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Actually, I think that already exists, in a way: Nuts, I've forgotten most of my own experience, but I do remember that somewhat -- IIRC it was a sort of 'close but no cigar' sort of thing -- you had to know what you were doing to use it, and of course the whole idea is that at that point the newbie has no idea. Seems to me that what I wanted was a sort of simple '1, 2, 3' set of choices for 'minimal setup (masochistic)', 'normal setup (sane)', and 'lots of bells and whistles setup (rococo)' with a friendly reminder that one can always rerun 'xxx' to change to something else if one wants to experiment. I remember being terrified of the installer, now that I recall.