Re: pkg/32705 (add builtin support for curl)

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/32705; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	jml%ascia.fi@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/32705 (add builtin support for curl)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 21:11:49 +0200

 On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
 <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
 >  On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 12:22:14PM +0000, bsiegert%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 >  > Synopsis: add builtin support for curl
 >
 >  Due to the variants in how curl can be built, I don't believe this to be
 >  a good idea.
 
 On the other hand, it might help with situations where ftp cannot do
 https and you have no tool to fetch distfiles, no?
 
 --Benny.