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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by darkpuma on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:32PM (#19173966)
Maybe. But for an application opening html documentation, the convention already exists.

    xdg-open [URL]
Opens the URL in the user's default browser, which is a wholly reasonable and expected way for a program to behave. Moreso I'd say than using shared libraries to pull up some sort of kludgy KHTMLPart thing.
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