Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:59:48 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 Message-ID: <199801280729.RAA10425@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 02:13:47 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980128021040.641A-100000@localhost>
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> Well, the only thing that could be changed would be to make a > failed dependency fatal, which might not be a bad idea, since I It sounds like a good idea to me, although an option would be good to override it. > > Yes, but since wget, netscape, and lynx all use {http,ftp}_proxy, I think > > changing fetch wouldn't hurt too bad.. > But soon we'll be able to fix netscape! :) Hmm... You are > right, though. Heh :) Yeah, I could do the work on fetch tonight (shouldn't take long at all), but I wonder if there is any point considering ftp now supports command line fetches, and proxies.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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