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Jonathan Chen wrote:

>The recent updates to the ports/Mk/* files restricts the FETCH_CMD to
>/usr/bin/fetch. Why would you use wget instead of the base-system's
>fetch to build the ports anyway?
>  
>
Because fetch used to break horribly under our stateful ipf firewall at 
the office.

Because wget shows you the *status* of a download--not just how many 
bytes it's downloaded.

Because I like wget.

So, thank you for your answer of how they changed ports/Mk/* -- I have 
reverted my systems back to using fetch.

Glenn