On 2015/06/02 00:09, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Ted Unangst said: > > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > Sorry, it's not good enough to replace ftp(1) for system use without > > > ftp. Like it or not, ports fetches need FTP and can't really rely on > > > installing something for ports to do that. > > > > It's not obvious to me why this would be the case. The ports tree already > > depends on various external programs to extract xz, cab, etc.
Fetching files happens really early, before dependencies are processed. And the program used to fetch is meant to be user-overridable. > One important thing is missing from this discussion: what exactly is > wrong with ftp(1)? The code is....to put it nicely....rather dated ;-)
