On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 05:25:15PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2015/06/01 10:20, patrick keshishian wrote: > > > On 6/1/15, Sunil Nimmagadda <su...@nimmagadda.net> wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:16:09PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > >> screw ftp. just make a new util http, that just does http. > > > > 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.
We don't have any infrastructure for FETCH_DEPENDS, and I'm very loathe to make things even MORE complex than they already are...
