BaseSeed

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:10:28PM +0800, John wrote:

> Rather than risk the community's ire by hacking on the wiki, I'll pick 
> the argument here:-)
> 
> eject s/b essential. Try removing a CD from a Mac without it.

That's why it's installed by default, even on a minimal system (that's what
BaseSeed is).  "Essential", on the other hand, means that you are not
allowed to remove it, which isn't appropriate for eject.

> lynx I use links, w3m but I use this more. It's good for getting URLS 
> and headers. See below for headers.

We thought it important to have _one_ text-mode browser in base, and decided
on w3m as the preferred option.  I don't think there is anything you could
do with lynx that you cannot do with w3m, and w3m is significantly more
capable in some respects.

> nmap network diagnosis. More useful than netcat:-)

I flatly disagree with the latter statement.  As to nmap's suitability for
base, I'm unconvinced.  It's rather large compared to the other diagnostic
tools we provide, and the only additional diagnostic feature that it
provides is OS guessing.

-- 
 - mdz