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

["Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:30:38PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:19:52PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
>  > (...)  The i386
>  > executable is 1064887 bytes unstripped, 1009916 bytes stripped.
> 
> That is rather large for base, especially since including it in base
> serves no purpose. Why not install it from pkgsrc? (Or better yet, why
> not install a real browser from pkgsrc?)

Oh really. When was the last time you have measured /usr/share/man/html* ?
It's way larger, could be done without including it in base, serves no
purpose, could be generated with a later-on transformation (or better yet,
ordered as paper copy with a script from pkgsrc).

Ridiculous.

-Martin