From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15355 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2014 06:25:29 -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: 18761 Received: (qmail 11330 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2014 06:25:03 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@zsh.org From: Yuri D'Elia Subject: Re: zsh-newuser-install Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:23:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: <140416102727.ZM19090@torch.brasslantern.com> <534FE710.3020601@eastlink.ca> <140417123722.ZM22179@torch.brasslantern.com> <20140423165024.1480528a@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.106.183.18 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: On 04/24/2014 01:53 AM, Mikael Magnusson wrote: >>> - 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. I had to smile at this :) But, sadly, many of the people that I know use it. I have the same sentiment for similar projects for vim, emacs, and even bash.