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. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
