On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:06:10AM -0400, Richard Thornton wrote:
> I am curious - given that OpenBSD ships each RELEASE with X , but
> applications like Firefox will not work without installing another DE,
> [...]
That is not true. I ran Firefox and Chrome on a clean OpenBSD 4.9
installation when it was released and I have been able to since then,
and I find it hard to believe it was different before.
> [...]
> XFCE; why not ship OpenBSD with the basic X, but with the necessary
> libraries to allow FireFox to run and other applications like R to output
> graphics? Also why not go ahead and ship with Firefox? The disk would
> still be within the size of a standard CD.
> [...]
Installing Firefox with pkg_add adds the required libraries
automatically. If it does not, that's a bug in the port that should be
reported.
Adding Firefox to the base system would be a very bad idea. It is a huge
load of code that needs to be maintained and not everyone uses Firefox.
What if I want Chrome instead? Add that to base? What about dillo?
netsurf? Why not add OpenOffice while we are at it?
--
Gregor Best
