I'm going to wade in here as an 'outsider' as it were... and +1 to wget.
Bjørn Mork wrote:
Rosen Penev <ros...@gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 3:31 AM, Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> wrote:
Rosen Penev <ros...@gmail.com> writes:
curl is more common than GNU wget is.
No.
Yes.
That shouldn't matter either way - both are available.
How about throwing in an actual argument why you think it is? Or why it
makes curl a better choice than e.g. firefox, which also is quite
popular on the example systems you've mentioned.
100% valid point... how about lynx instead? :P
For example, Cygwin, Arch Linux, and my android phone all come with
curl by default whereas wget is missing.
wget has priority "important" in Debian, while curl is "optional".
I don't think it makes much sense to tune the installation system for
some weird distros no one actually use to build OpenWrt.
Arch Linux is what I use to build OpenWrt.
OK, one user then.
:)
I've already made my case that curl is more common.
No you have not. You have made an unsubstantiated claim. Please fix
the Arch Linux defaults instead if this is a problem for you.
As someone that still has a Slackware 1.0 disk I've been around for a
while. Most of my systems are BSD based now so I have 'fetch' which has
a functionality similar to wget, the non BSD based stuff is debian and
centos (the latter of which I'm trying to dump with a vengeance.) I
also install wget (not curl) where I need something extra mainly because
of the default dependency list and that implies a lighter weight.
Personally I like fetch and wget because you drop the command and url
and you get a file, curl you have to switch or pipe to get a file...
just laziness for me. Both are as good as each other in the long run,
but I do believe unless there is any compelling reason why like security
issues or something available using curl that is not available in wget -
*that is required for building* - leave it the hell alone!
Regards,
Michelle
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Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/
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