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In the 90s disks were smaller and it might have made more sense to exclude compilers or exclude X. I used to not put X on headless machines. But today disk space is big and cheap.
Why would they merge X before the text games? I hope they're real complaints and not i.e. we need install menu changed from "install xserver [x]" to "how u liek the xserver? now[ ] never[ ] now with extra firefox, please[x]"
It is completely unimaginable for OpenBSD to have Firefox in the base system. This is a very big misunderstanding of what goes in base vs. ports tree. Even with all the sets, the OpenBSD system without any ports is small compared to, say, a typical Linux distro.