On Thursday 17 October 2013 10:48, Lauri Kasanen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013, at 22:23, Harald Becker wrote:
> > >> GNU wget does kinda cater to this use: you can specify it in
> > >> the .wgetrc file, but then that's only portable to GNU wget.
> > >How about adding limited support for .wgetrc then (only for
> > >timeouts)?
> > 
> > Just a suggestion ...
> > 
> > Support for .wgetrc is much bloat. What about looking for
> > environment variable WGET_TIMEOUT? Ok it is not compatible with
> > other other wget versions, but BB wget isn't neither. 
> 
> Checking for an env var would be more size. Having it as a compile-time
> configure option means no size change, and we don't need the default to
> change at runtime.

I don't want to add incompatible changes.

The whole point of using same commands on "big" and on embedded
systems is to give user/admin the same environment in both cases.

-- 
vda
_______________________________________________
busybox mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox

Reply via email to