Re: [epg@progeny.com: Bug#154142: dhcp-client conflicts]
Previously Chris Waters wrote:
> Some virtual packages (mail-transport-agent, c-compiler, httpd, most
> of *-server) clearly do have an associated interface. Some
> (mail-reader, www-browser, audio-mixer) clearly do not.
Lack of an interface tends to be troublesome. Look at doc-central
for example: it has to guess which web browser you have installed.
Other programs will have the exact same problem. In this case the
interface is really minimal (how does one start a browser), but
the lack of a well defined interface is problematic.
> If that were true, then nothing would depend on mail-reader or
> www-browser or audio-mixer. But things do.
And things could be better if they could actually start a mail-reader
automatically :)
Wichert.
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