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Subject: Re: zsh-newuser-install
From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: "Yuri D'Elia" <wavexx@thregr.org>
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On 23 April 2014 22:31, Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> wrote:
> On 04/23/2014 05:50 PM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
>> There's certainly plenty that could be added here --- enough that
>> nothing's likely  to happen unless we get some solid feedback...
>>
>> - Make it more modular so stuff can be plugged into it and more of the
>> low-level framework is available as separate functions.
>>
>> - Make it interact better with scripts installed by distributions?  I'm
>> not sure how useful this actually is, given distributions tend to hook
>> into to global /etc files, but then that doesn't give the user much
>> control, which is the point of newuser.  Maybe the previous point already
>> covers this well enough.
[...]
> I think many people nowdays wouldn't need the newuser mechanism, to be
> honest. With oh-my-zsh (and friends), people just look for a
> pre-configured solution which has a gazillion of options turned on.

If nobody used oh-my-zsh, the world would be a better place. Or at
least #zsh would be.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson