[gentoo-user] Re: Why is lynx a dependency?

2006-05-06 Thread Mick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: I don't really know for sure but it used to be alright just with links before. Yep. Used to be. And then someone discovered, that links is no good for this. the reason is here :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is lynx a dependency?

2006-05-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
Bob Sanders wrote: On Sat, 06 May 2006 13:13:19 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mind boggles! It seems that I'll have to emerge elinks or lynx whether I want it or not. You'll be mighty happy you have it for that one time X won't start and you need to download a fix or find one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is lynx a dependency?

2006-05-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:12:31AM -0700, Penguin Lover Bob Sanders squawked: On Sat, 06 May 2006 13:13:19 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mind boggles! It seems that I'll have to emerge elinks or lynx whether I want it or not. You'll be mighty happy you have it for that one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is lynx a dependency?

2006-05-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:52:33PM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: On the other hand: I wonder why w3m can be used, but not the variant w3mmee? I rather enjoy its multibyte character support. nevermind. I read the ebuild more carefully this time and saw that it depends on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is lynx a dependency?

2006-05-06 Thread Graham Murray
Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You'll be mighty happy you have it for that one time X won't start and you need to download a fix or find one from the command line using elinks or lynx. I've been there way too often to not have a backup text based web browser installed, for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is lynx a dependency?

2006-05-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
Graham Murray wrote: In such situations it is a pity the bugzilla search feature does not seem to work (at least not for me) with any of the text mode browsers that I have tried. Hm. I just tried (for the first time, I've got to admit) bgo with elinks, and searching worked just fine. elinks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is lynx a dependency?

2006-05-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 06:12:09PM +0100, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked: In such situations it is a pity the bugzilla search feature does not seem to work (at least not for me) with any of the text mode browsers that I have tried. you seem to not have noticed the text on the error page

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is lynx a dependency?

2006-05-06 Thread Graham Murray
Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It says, quote: If you are trying to use QuickSearch, you need to enable Javascript in your browser. Of course, what you should do is to just, when you go to b.g.o. with a text browser, scroll down a tiny bit more (on 80x24 screen, it is the 2nd page,