[haiku] Re: Naming of current optional packages

  • From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:07:50 -0800

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 14:20 -0800, Urias McCullough wrote:
> 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.

Definitely.

> 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.

Since wget is included, perhaps a script could be used to download and
install at least the BezillaBrowser; it may not be easy to know what
file to get though being that the filename changes with every update
(unless they are kept in sync).

Cheers,

Jorge/aka Koki



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