On Thursday, June 9, 2011, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I would argue that there is no place for web interfaces for Haiku >> applications. > > For many things I agree but package selection is one area that is > ideal as a web interface. One excellent reason to not have a web based package manager: the nightly images don't include a web browser. That (and my lack of talent with c/c++) was the reason for implementing installoptionalpackage as a bash + cli tools script -- every nightly image would have the necessary software. --mmadia