On 2011-09-12, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Otherwise, if pkg_add is the 'installer', then the tool or process is > broken. In the later case - as a dumb user - I don't consider required > configuration changes 'knob turning'.
pkg_add is a package installer, not a configuration editor. By policy OpenBSD doesn't second-guess your intentions and reconfigure your system just because you've installed a package. Applications for Microsoft OS often *do* do this; the result: the advanced user spends time working out how to disable them, the average user, after a while, tries to work out why things run so slowly and wonders if their memory is full and they need a new computer. There are plenty of OS geared towards, to use your words, a "dumb user"; OpenBSD is not one. (actually I would change this to "inexperienced admin" as it's quite possible for a system administrator to set things up for a non-technical user, as happens all the time in the commercial software world but also demonstrated nicely in the 'Puffy In The Corporate Aquarium' article in bsdmag/undeadly). > http://xkcd.com/342/. , 349, surely? :) /| ~~~~~~~~~~~
