On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 14:42 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 7/29/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:40 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > * Unix philosophy - do just one thing and do it well: > > > - RPM is not a GPG key manager but a package manager. > > > - RPM is not an ftp/http client, it's a package manager. > > > > > > > ... While I agree with the general UNIX philosophy, RPM's HTTP/FTP > > support is very useful. > > How about creating an external plug-in interface that will handle > > non-standard file URLs instead of doing it in the main code? > > > > - Gilboa > > Seems to me, removal of the code doesn't necessarily mean removal of > the feature. Future RPM might just depend on wget. > /+1. Wget is a sound option. - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
