[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] prereq-mk: Change wget dependency to curl one.

Rosen Penev rosenp at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 10:03:07 PST 2018


On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 3:31 AM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
> Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com> writes:
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>> curl is more common than GNU wget is.
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> No.
Yes.
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>> For example, Cygwin, Arch Linux, and my android phone all come with
>> curl by default whereas wget is missing.
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> wget has priority "important" in Debian, while curl is "optional".
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> 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.

I've already made my case that curl is more common. The only issue
would be if this commit would impact Debian or Ubuntu since they seem
to be more common for building.
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> Bjørn



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