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[Ari Steinberg <ari.steinberg AT stanford.edu>]

I know that lynx (or links, for that matter) can be extremely useful, 
especially for the early stages of setting up your box, before X is 
installed.  The question is, should it be installed automatically or should 
it just be included in the iso and let the user cast it if they want 
it?  Furthermore, are there advantages to lynx over links (which AFAIK does 
a better job rendering most pages)?
My instincts are that either/both of these spells belong in 
post-installation (ie keep the source on the cd, but let the user cast them 
only if they want to; don't automatically install them).  Maybe when the 
main installation is over, it should print a message saying "you might want 
to do a sorcery update, a sorcery rebuild, and/or cast some of these spells 
now, all of which are included on the cd: lynx/links, linux-pam, 
useful-profile" etc.  Or do we already have a message like this (I haven't 
installed SM since January, so I don't know/remember what it looks like now).
Thoughts?
-Ari

At 06:03 PM 7/31/2002 -0400, Miles Cowan wrote:
> Without question, lynx was a godsend during the installtion.
>
> On Wednesday 31 July 2002 05:53 pm, Jonathan Evraire wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Ari Steinberg wrote:
> > > Also, lynx seems a bit unnecessary.
> >
> >   Actually, lynx came in handy for me the first time around I installed
> > SMGL and I needed to look something up on a webpage.  Anyone else?