On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If that were true, then nothing would depend on mail-reader or
> www-browser or audio-mixer. But things do.
I'm not a big audio person, so I can't comment on audio-mixer.
www-browser: definitely, here a standard interface (give a URL on the command
line) is useful. currently, urlview depends on an ugly hack
to do that (listing browsers itself)
mail-reader: honestly, I fail to see a reason why this is sane.
"less /var/mail/moshez" is as good a mail reader as any.
what on earth would prompt someone to suggest a mail-reader
is truly beyond me. Should a mail-reader also be able to
*send* mail? That would actually make it a useful virtual
package, again with a minimum of interface (accept an address
on the command line, e.g.)
> For those virtual packages which have an assumed interface (which is
> probably most of them), I fully agree.
>
> Good: Documenting interfaces for virtual packages.
> Bad: throwing out virtual packages which lack an interface to document.
Better: adding interfaces for those virtual packages which lack an interface,
and supplying patches to support those interfaces, and throwing
those which truly serve no purpose.
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