[haiku] Re: Naming of current optional packages

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:47:32 +0100 CET

> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > A lot of people play with the nightly builds and when they realize 
> > that
> > what they downloaded is a barebone OS with not apps, they ask 
> > around
> > where they can get apps to make the OS more usable, and they are 
> > always
> > told to download the OPs from Haiku Files anyway.
> 
> Yes, it's an unfortunately situation.
> 
> We really should have a page where people can "get the extra stuff"
> without having to go through much fuss...
> 
> It's even trickier without a browser already included in the nightly 
> builds.
> 
> IIRC, ReactOS provides a small app that can "download firefox" which
> basically grabs the latest firefox build directly from mozilla.com
> (regardless of version I think) - maybe we should bundle something
> that can do that - although that's coming really close to package
> management ;) They provide a few other "known-working" apps that 
> users
> can download as well using that method.

Well we can always clone CheckItOut into GetItOut ;)

François.

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