On 04-Dec-07, 00:07 (CST), Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's been brought to my attention that liferea, while being able to > use wget, curl, gwget and kget to download feed attachments, does not > Recommend or Suggest any of them, or their alternatives. > > Since I'd rather not maintain a long list of possible file > downloaders, I tried but failed to find some virtual package I could > Recommend for that functionality. Thus, this query: Would it be > reasonable for such packages to provide one? What would be the propper > name?
More importantly, what is the defined interface and functionality provided by such a virtual package? That is, what can a package Depending on the virtaul package expect to be able to do? Does liferea detect which of {wget,curl,gwget,kget} are installed, and invoke each in a unique way? If so, the virtual package is not a good idea; instead, liferea should, in fact, list them specifically. Steve, continuing his probably pointless campaign against useless virtual packages. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]