Package pruning for FC4 and beyond - COMPLETE LIST

Akira TAGOH tagoh at redhat.com
Mon Feb 28 11:26:01 UTC 2005


>>>>> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:44:48 -0600,
>>>>> "CA" == Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:

CA> Once upon a time, Eric Warnke <eric at snowmoon.com> said:
>> lynx/w3m+w3m-el/elinks - 1 objection about scripts using lynx... ether 
>> those scripts are not part of core or they are not marked correctly.  If 
>> you can surf the web with either, you can download them from extras.  If 
>> either has a dependancy in core the .src.rpm needs to be corrected. 
>> Personally I think lynx should go to extras.

CA> At one time, lynx was the only one of those that could do SSL, basic
CA> authentication, etc. (I don't know the current state of all of them
CA> because I use lynx).  I think it may still be the only one that verifies
CA> SSL certificates.

w3m can do it as well, though.

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Akira TAGOH




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