2008/6/19 Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 02:12:31PM +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote: >> That is not nearly as good as using sensible-browser > > Why not?
Many reasons (which, by the way, were exposed before, but I'll expand): 1) browser only really works if the $BROWSER varible is set 2) because it doesn't take into account the DISPLAY env variable, thus failing for consoles in the absence of the BROWSER variable 3) the debian alternatives are meaningless for browser, while this is the default situation for a new account, browser will fail one more time to provide the proper fallback (here, in the absence of $BROWSER, should be the default www-browser as set by the alternatives system, as designated by the system admin) 4) sensible-browser is here and *ALWAYS* does the right thing, while browser isn't even present in Debian -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
