From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 5 2:48:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA0C237B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 02:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.zen.co.uk (parmenides.zen.co.uk [212.23.8.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2B5643E5E for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 02:48:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 19646 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2002 09:48:23 -0000 Received: from protagoras.zen.co.uk (212.23.8.61) by parmenides.zen.co.uk with QMQP; 5 Aug 2002 09:48:23 -0000 Received: from dsl-62-3-122-102.zen.co.uk (HELO eborcom.com) (62.3.122.102) by protagoras.zen.co.uk with SMTP for ; 5 Aug 2002 09:48:23 -0000 X-Envelope-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: (qmail 37207 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Aug 2002 09:48:23 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:48:22 +0100 From: Tom Hukins To: Hiten Pandya Cc: Christophe Juniet , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/41106: FreeBSD Handbook lacks "Desktop Applications" chapter. Message-ID: <20020805104822.A37189@eborcom.com> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Hukins , Hiten Pandya , Christophe Juniet , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <20020805093834.A35950@eborcom.com> <20020805091832.13654.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com> <20020804191139.GA67318@daemon.entreview.com> <20020805000210.48508.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020805000210.48508.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com>; from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com on Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 05:02:10PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 05:02:10PM -0700, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > --- > 6.2 Browsers > FreeBSD does not come with a particular browser pre-installed. Instead, the > www ports collection contains a lot of browsers ready to be installed. If you > don't have time to compile everything (this can be very long in some cases) > many of them are available as packages. On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 02:18:32AM -0700, Hiten Pandya wrote: > --- Tom Hukins wrote: > > Both X11 desktops and Web browsers are provided as packages. Hiten, I > > don't understand your comment: The excerpt of Chris's article above > > looks fine to me. > > Hmm, it is pretty weird. I recently tried to install Gnome2 from teh > packages (on -current), via sysinstall, but darn thing didnt show it, none > of the gnome stuff was on it; this was by FTP (ftp.FreeBSD.org). Please > correct me if I am wrong. See /usr/ports/gnome2/Makefile: the "NO_BUILD" line prevents packages from building. I don't know why it's there, but I assume there's a good reason for it. Note, gnome2 only represents a small subset of X11 desktops. Also, Chris mentioned Web browsers, not X11 desktops, so I don't understand why you're raising this issue in response to his article. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message