Suggestions on packages to add to Ubuntu "main"

[Jeff Waugh]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 23:38 -0400, Tim Hull wrote:
> A more modern PDF reading program than xpdf (like gpdf, for instance)

We're shipping xpdf (the code on which gpdf is based) because gpdf does
not render as many documents as reliably as xpdf, due to font rendering
issues. I have little doubt that we'll ship gpdf in Hoary.

> Mozilla Thunderbird and some text mode internet software (as suggested 
> by someone else - it sounds good to me also)

Thunderbird is in supported, and we already ship a lot of useful CLI
tools (such as mutt, w3m, etc).

- Jeff

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