Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 12:01:34 -0700 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: Adam David <adam@veda.is> Cc: ache@freefall.cdrom.com, adam@freefall.cdrom.com, alm@freefall.cdrom.com, ats@freefall.cdrom.com, bde@freefall.cdrom.com, csgr@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-ports@freefall.cdrom.com, davidg@freefall.cdrom.com, dfr@freefall.cdrom.com, dyson@freefall.cdrom.com, gclarkii@freefall.cdrom.com, gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com, guido@freefall.cdrom.com, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, joerg@freefall.cdrom.com, julian@freefall.cdrom.com, jvh@freefall.cdrom.com, karl@freefall.cdrom.com, martin@freefall.cdrom.com, nate@freefall.cdrom.com, paul@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@freefall.cdrom.com, proven@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@freefall.cdrom.com, rich@freefall.cdrom.com, se@freefall.cdrom.com, sean@freefall.cdrom.com, sef@freefall.cdrom.com, smace@freefall.cdrom.com, sos@freefall.cdrom.com, swallace@freefall.cdrom.com, torstenb@freefall.cdrom.com, wollman@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/ncftp/patches patch-aa Message-ID: <199409221901.MAA12904@precipice.Shockwave.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Sep 1994 17:35:22 -0000." <199409221735.RAA02972@veda.is>
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The package system doesn't do ftps. I just double checked to make sure it hadn't been changed, and this is still the case. There is no need or advantage for a user to have the ncftp client as part of a base system. People who want to build packages from scratch may want it, and if so, there's a package with ncftp already there for them. I don't see a requirement for us to force ncftp into the source tree. From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/ncftp/patches patch-aa > NCFTP is not one of those tools that 'everyone' has to have. I think the reasoning behind needing ncftp is that pkg_install relies on it to fetch files. Granted, the same is possible with ftp, but trickier to implement -- or a couple of extra features could be added to ftp to make it less tricky (for instance .netrc accepted in current directory). -- Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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