From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 27 23:30:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11214 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:30:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11204 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA10425; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:59:48 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801280729.RAA10425@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: ac199@hwcn.org cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Tim Vanderhoek , Warner Losh , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 02:13:47 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:59:48 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Well, the only thing that could be changed would be to make a > failed dependency fatal, which might not be a bad idea, since I It sounds like a good idea to me, although an option would be good to override it. > > Yes, but since wget, netscape, and lynx all use {http,ftp}_proxy, I think > > changing fetch wouldn't hurt too bad.. > But soon we'll be able to fix netscape! :) Hmm... You are > right, though. Heh :) Yeah, I could do the work on fetch tonight (shouldn't take long at all), but I wonder if there is any point considering ftp now supports command line fetches, and proxies.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | ---------------------------------------------------------------------