For the past two weeks or so, I've been experimenting with using Busybox's wget applet as a replacement for GNU wget, with pretty good success. It supports all the arguments which Paludis uses for wget, and in addition, when an `openssl` binary is installed, it will use it for supporting SSL; this is good for a few reasons, namely it'd be another step in having Busybox act as a nice fallback for whenever OpenSSL people manage to break the ABI compatibility without warning again, or if the system just gets broken in some other way.
In order to do this, I have some changes on Gerrit[1] which take care of the alternatives, the busybox changes, etc., replace net-misc/wget in system.conf with virtual/wget, and enable [providers:gnu] for virtual/wget by default. GNU wget's real binary would now be `gnuwget`. Since there wasn't really a standard for this sort of thing, I just decided to use `gnuwget` as the name. Also, this'll serve as a test for the new virtual announcement process which Wulf proposed; as such, I'll wait until Friday to merge these changes. Have a nice day, everyone _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
