Subject: Re: HTML browser
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/11/2003 01:49:39
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 04:07:23 +0000, Nate Hill <vugdeox@freeshell.org>
wrote:
> On Sun August 10 2003 10:34, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 <drkilloran@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > > why, oh why do we NOT
> > > have some rudimentary browser installed as a standard part of the
> > > netBSD distribution?
...
> Considering the nature of Port 80, there never should nor ever will be
> a "web browser" in any NetBSD distribution set.
I guess I don't know much about the nature of port 80, then. To me, it
looks very much like 21, 23, and 25.
If XFree86 shipped with contrib/xwebrowser -- a logical if unlikely
scenario, but still -- would you strip it out on principle?
Maybe it's just me, but I'd say the www has been quite a phenomenon these
past few years.
--jkl