Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:48:22 +0100 From: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org> To: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> Cc: Christophe Juniet <cjuniet@entreview.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/41106: FreeBSD Handbook lacks "Desktop Applications" chapter. Message-ID: <20020805104822.A37189@eborcom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020805000210.48508.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com>; from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com on Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 05:02:10PM -0700 References: <20020805093834.A35950@eborcom.com> <20020805091832.13654.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com> <20020804191139.GA67318@daemon.entreview.com> <20020805000210.48508.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com>
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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 <tom@FreeBSD.org> 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
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