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Subject: Re: ports/62302: SIZE in distinfos causes failure with
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Kris Kennaway wrote:

> AFAIK, historically FETCH_CMD was added because the fetch binary moved
> location at some point, and we needed to support the old and new
> locations.
> 
> I don't think we've ever explicitly supported using a third party
> application to download files.

But many people use it this way. Like me.

-- 
Sem.