On 7/30/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > /+1. Wget is a sound option. > I'm sure that the rpm developers originally considered using an external program but decided that it would be better to have an internal http/ftp client. If we start stripping out various bits of RPM and replacing them with external libraries, we are making bootstrapping a headache. RPM is used to install wget and other external libraries in the first place, so having rpm depend on them makes things messy. Maybe instead of removing the features, they could be left in, but when an external program or library that does the job better is installed, rpm detects it at runtime and uses it instead. This way there is the best of both worlds: - Basic support for x (eg, http) is provided in rpm, allowing you to use x before a more complete implementation is installed. - The code for x can be simplified, since it should no longer be necessary to build in a full x implementation and handle corner cases. - Once a better implementation is installed, rpm uses it by default, and the inbuilt code for it is never executed. n0dalus. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
