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Re: Adding the "links" text mode web browser to the base system




Am 31.10.2009 um 15:12 schrieb der Mouse:

The NetBSD base system includes HTML versions of man pages, and
several other HTML files.  However, it does not include an
application capable of displaying such files.

I would like to add the "links" text mode web browser to the NetBSD
base system.

I think a much better fix would be to eliminate the HTML files.  Their
content is available in much more readable forms elsewhere; an HTML
reader is not needed to read manpages, just to read those particular
manglings of them.

I second that.  HTML manual pages have no benefit.

<cynic>
If we add a browser to base, then we should add mozzila firefox, not some half-assed text based piece of crap like links...

Internet in textmode? Come one get real, the times of ASCII porn are gone..
</cynic>


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(I have nothing against supporting transforming manpages into HTML,
provided the proper conversion programs are installed. I see no reason
to do so by default, I question why base is even capable of doing so,
and I think it's a really bad idea to use that mistake to justify
adding a web browser to base. Base isn't - or shouldn't be, at least -
"everything anyone might want"; if you want Linux you know where to
find it.  Base should be, well, the _base_ system, a solid foundation
on which to build.)

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