Hamish wrote:
> Package: wget
> Version: 1.11.4-2
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when using wget with the -r and -O options you get a warning message:
> """
> WARNING: combining -O with -r or -p will mean that all downloaded content
> will be placed in the single file you specified.
> """
> 
> (in this case I used -O excactly to get that behaviour [to force an 
> overwrite])

In other words, you will get every single downloaded file placed in this
one file. You sure that's what you wanted? It's not what most people
expect. We're not turning this off upstream (in fact, we may revisit the
idea of disallowing that combination of options).

-- 
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/



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