Re: web browser url viewing proposal
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:48:13AM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> Again, why not just call sensible-browser? A program needing a browser
> should simply depend on debianutils and www-browser|x-www-browser.
> Parsing the BROWSER variable and substituting the url value in the proper
> way in every program seems to me an unnecessary duplication of code.
sensible-browser won't be available in all distributions. Programs whose
upstream developers want to implement BROWSER in a portable way will be
duplicating this code.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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