Re: zsh-newuser-install

[Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.