[haiku] Re: Naming of current optional packages
- From: David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:34:17 +1100
2009/11/16 Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.
We could ensure that wget is included and have a readme file with
locations. That would be a fairly small addition to the nightly
builds. Depends I guess on how easy we want to make things for
non-developers to work with a nightly build.
--
Cheers
David
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