Re: lynx

[Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>]

Mark W. Eichin:
 > I think the distinction is not all that useful; just have a single
 > virtual name of "www client" or better yet "http client" since
 > that's what these backends really use :-) And be sure the w3.el
 > module satisfies it...

Hmm...

There's more than three kinds of dependencies:

a requirement for a system that fits some sort of
user-interface-functionality classification.

command-line interfaces.

c-language interfaces.

[And, obviously, other languages result in their own interfaces.]

w3.el could fit the user-interface-functionality classification sort
of thing, but it doesn't really have a command line interface.  This
might be important in some contexts (and, the most recent version of
emacs would allow a fix -- but I'll ignore that because I'm trying to
oversimplify things here).

For comparison purposes, note the large number of packages which
depend on smail | sendmail.

I expect there will always be work -- but at the moment, I'm going to
be biased towards not generalizing things till we see real repitition.

I think "web-browser" more than adequately fits our current package
description needs.  I have a mild preference for web-browser over
www-browser, because it's easier to pronounce.  If the netscape
package also provides "java," I don't think that would hurt anyone.
[And maybe it would encourage someone to come up with a "java-dev".]

Anyways, let's not get any finer-grained than this -- there's lots
more interesting things to do.

-- 
Raul