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xdg-utils package

  1. Bug #1624022
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1624022

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote : Re: Alias 'browse' to sensible-browser

the "kbd" package has a binary called /bin/open - it would not be very awesome to shadow that

xdg-open is probably better though, since it (AFAIK) falls back to sensible-browser if necessary like in a console, but uses more modern methods to select the program otherwise

& I think it would be best if any solution were implemented in Debian as well, to both get wider adoption and help prevent any hiccups if a future package takes over the generic name that is chosen