Am 24.04.2026 um 18:33 schrieb izzy Meyer:
> Hello tech@
> 
> This is my first diff to the base system, so hopefully I did this
> right. Feel free to point me in the correct direction to do this right
> if I'm off base here.
> 
> After a personal experience with a friend tying OpenBSD for the
> first time and some discussion on misc@, I landed on doing what Stuart
> Henderson Suggested here [1].
> 
> Attached is a diff that adds an echo command to install.sub urging new
> users to use the default options in the installer if unsure.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> I couldn't figure out how to build a ramdisk kernel to test, so
> pointers to the correct documentation would be helpful here.
> 
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=177704953812330&w=2
> 
> Thanks,
> 

I am a bit confused about the initial post leading to this diff.
Repeating it here:

"A friend of mine was installing OpenBSD for the first time, and came
upon a minor roadblock. Em didn't realize that you should really
install all system software sets unless you're looking for a whole
world of issues any sane person may not want to deal with."

There shouldn't be "a whole world of issues" and I'd rather ask about
what issues the user ran into. What issues are those? I mean, running
pkg_add to add a package depending on something not installed will
produce corresponding error messages and not leave the system in a
"whole world of issues" state.

I would be against adding that hint to the installer, if that hint
really hints about covering up "a whole world of issues" that shouldn't
exist and should be rated a bug to report @bugs.

Regards,
-- 
Christian