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Subject:    [gentoo-dev] More on the lukemftp and FETCH stuff
From:       Don Davies <djdavies () nospam ! homedotcom>
Date:       2001-03-22 17:11:02
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Ok, well I probably should have qualified my earlier stuff a little more..

I realized after checking, that Gentoo doesn't have a /bin/ftp by default.
This is probably a good idea to stick with.. so disregard the part about
default /bin/ftp! Sorry :-)

But once this gets committed, it will be the best FTP client clearly
from the competition in net-ftp/* IMHO.  If you've used BSD, then
you already know that net-ftp/ftp (ftp-netkit) just doesnt cut it. I dont
believe it even supports ipv6.  But choice is great, so install whichever
/bin/ftp you want.  Although if I were king for a day, Id quickly be renaming
net-ftp/ftp to net-ftp/ftp-netkit and being so darned bold and decidedly
confident to rename net-ftp/lukemftp to net-ftp/ftp.  The base BSD tools
are good, trust me. This should make it over here too.

As for the part about installing itself as FETCHCOMMAND, yes the
portage system gets more flexible if you make each package supply
a .fetch script.  Ok so no problem, Ill simply make the required script/
functions, and this time only will install an example line in
/etc/make.defaults instead of taking over the world ;-)

Ce la vie, however all you have to do is TRY this package, and TRY it
in portage system to see the light.  At least now when I build packages,
my screen looks professional, clean, and informative when files
are downloading instead of a complete pile of crap.  Why do you
think there are patches out there for improving Wget's status reporting
function!  Because its BUTT UGLY, thats why.

As for Wget being lightweight (ha!), well I dont know what that means
there because over here lukemftp .tbz2 package is smaller than the
wget .tbz2 package, although the lukemftp binary is twice the size
of the wget one.  But of course that makes sense because the ftp
program does more usefull stuff than the wget one. The bottom line
is they're similar programs, with similar features.  Although of course
Wget seems to contain a lot of support for mirroring websites, and
on-the-fly HTML tags manipulation that an FTP client does not waste
its time doing.

But again this all makes sense since wget is housed in net-misc/*
and this package should go into net-ftp/*.

Don



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