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

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 04:36:48PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > 
> > I objected to the stealth addition of these files to the base system and
> > I object to the non-stealth addition of the 1MB executable that they are
> > now being used to justify.
> 
> I almost agree with you, except that I think every server should have a
> client.  We have finger/fingerd, ftp/ftpd, ssh/sshd.  httpd has been in
> base for years, yet we have no http client.  

That's simply false.  ftp(1) is an http client.

Thor