Substitute dependencies?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 18 10:03:07 UTC 2011


On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:38:00 +0000 (GMT)
Thomas Mueller wrote:

> First case I think of is the misc/freebsd-doc-* ports which want
> links1, which would be redundant if I already have lynx installed, or
> lynx and seamonkey too.
> 
> I don't really like links1, prefer links with graphic capability
> though links with graphics is still a lame horse compared to Firefox
> or Seamonkey.
> 
> I have viewed the FreeBSD Handbook quite successfully with Seamonkey,
> even Lynx.

links1 isn't simply installed as browser to read the documentation. It's
a dependency of docproj, and is used to generate formatted text from
HTML. 


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