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Ok, well I probably should have qualified my earlier stuff a little more.. |
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I realized after checking, that Gentoo doesn't have a /bin/ftp by default. |
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This is probably a good idea to stick with.. so disregard the part about |
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default /bin/ftp! Sorry :-) |
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But once this gets committed, it will be the best FTP client clearly |
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from the competition in net-ftp/* IMHO. If you've used BSD, then |
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you already know that net-ftp/ftp (ftp-netkit) just doesnt cut it. I dont |
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believe it even supports ipv6. But choice is great, so install whichever |
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/bin/ftp you want. Although if I were king for a day, Id quickly be renaming |
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net-ftp/ftp to net-ftp/ftp-netkit and being so darned bold and decidedly |
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confident to rename net-ftp/lukemftp to net-ftp/ftp. The base BSD tools |
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are good, trust me. This should make it over here too. |
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As for the part about installing itself as FETCHCOMMAND, yes the |
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portage system gets more flexible if you make each package supply |
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a .fetch script. Ok so no problem, Ill simply make the required script/ |
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functions, and this time only will install an example line in |
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/etc/make.defaults instead of taking over the world ;-) |
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Ce la vie, however all you have to do is TRY this package, and TRY it |
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in portage system to see the light. At least now when I build packages, |
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my screen looks professional, clean, and informative when files |
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are downloading instead of a complete pile of crap. Why do you |
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think there are patches out there for improving Wget's status reporting |
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function! Because its BUTT UGLY, thats why. |
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As for Wget being lightweight (ha!), well I dont know what that means |
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there because over here lukemftp .tbz2 package is smaller than the |
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wget .tbz2 package, although the lukemftp binary is twice the size |
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of the wget one. But of course that makes sense because the ftp |
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program does more usefull stuff than the wget one. The bottom line |
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is they're similar programs, with similar features. Although of course |
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Wget seems to contain a lot of support for mirroring websites, and |
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on-the-fly HTML tags manipulation that an FTP client does not waste |
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its time doing. |
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But again this all makes sense since wget is housed in net-misc/* |
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and this package should go into net-ftp/*. |
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Don |