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

[Alberto Bursi]

On 3/10/2018 7:13 PM, Stijn Segers wrote:
>
> Op za, 10 mrt 2018 om 7:03 , schreef Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 3:31 AM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
>>>  Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>  curl is more common than GNU wget is.
>>>
>>>  No.
>> Yes.
>>>
>>>>  For example, Cygwin, Arch Linux, and my android phone all come with
>>>>  curl by default whereas wget is missing.
>>>
>>>  wget has priority "important" in Debian, while curl is "optional".
>>>
>>>  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.
>
> Arch users might catch the edge cases (notably the bleeding edge 
> ones). Debian based
> systems tend to be more widespread than Arch ones, and running one or 
> the other does
> not imply a more skilled user either way. Our wiki buildroot 
> instructions seem to
> assume/favour a Debian-based system (that of course heavily depends on 
> who wrote the
> entry) [1].
> ...
> [1] https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/buildroot.exigence
>

That's the old (archived, read-only) wiki link.

The new wiki article has no such favoring to Debian/buntu, and if you 
scroll down (in both articles actually) you find a list of CLI commands 
to install needed packages for most common distros. [1]
In the Arch one there is also wget in the list of packages to 
download/install, so if the Arch user is following the documentation he 
should have wget in his system.

[1] 
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/build-system/install-buildsystem


-Alberto