Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:50:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: andreas@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/bb Makefile Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970106132635.817I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199701051036.CAA14388@baloon.mimi.com>
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On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Modified: net/bb Makefile > * Log: > * port doesn't run-depend on lyx instead on lynx. But that was > * perhaps a bad choise, as well, since you need a web browser > * with graphical capabilities. > * Obtained from: "up again" Andrew Stesin > > Don't know if that's a good idea. RUN_DEPENDS will be pulled into the > package dependencies, so anyone trying to install the bb package will > encounter an error now. :( > > I don't think we really need to make this a dependency, the message > you're printing out at the end is descriptive enough, people who don't > have a browser installed on their system (hard to imagine someone like > that installing bb tho' ;) can do it themselves. It's possible. bb also contains the reporting agents for remote machines. I have it installed on a Sun machine that reports back to my FreeBSD display server. The display server doesn't run X, and I use my personal workstation for Netscape.. If anything, you need to print a message reminding people to: . edit bb/runbb.sh and set BBHOME properly . edit bb/etc/bbdef.sh and flavor to taste > Besides, netscape is not the only web browser around. :) As a matter of fact, you don't even need a browser to INSTALL it, just a browser to make the output useful. While you're at this you need to bump the checksum -- I've been in communication with the author and there's been a couple of revisions (including Release 1.0) as the same filename. If you upgrade it, you may remove the dependency on lynx since it uses it's own agent to check http connectivity. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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