10:42 p.m.
Hi,
In documentation, wherever we are using wget, it is probably better to
use curl instead since wget is not installed by default on the Live CD
while curl is. Just a thought.
Rahul
11:01 p.m.
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 10:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi,
In documentation, wherever we are using wget, it is probably better to
use curl instead since wget is not installed by default on the Live CD
while curl is. Just a thought.
Rahul
I ran into this problem (missing wget) after installing from the F10
LiveCD, so I can relate. However, I've no experience with curl, and I
must say, curl --help is somewhat intimidating. Is it as
straightforward to use as wget, especially for someone that may be new
(e.g., the majority of those using documentation on a new installation
of Fedora)?
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11:04 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:01:54AM +0200, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 10:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In documentation, wherever we are using wget, it is probably better to
> use curl instead since wget is not installed by default on the Live CD
> while curl is. Just a thought.
>
> Rahul
>
I ran into this problem (missing wget) after installing from the F10
LiveCD, so I can relate. However, I've no experience with curl, and I
must say, curl --help is somewhat intimidating. Is it as
straightforward to use as wget, especially for someone that may be new
(e.g., the majority of those using documentation on a new installation
of Fedora)?
Then shouldn't wget be installed by default?
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11:07 p.m.
> I ran into this problem (missing wget) after installing from the
F10
> LiveCD, so I can relate. However, I've no experience with curl,
> and I
> must say, curl --help is somewhat intimidating. Is it as
> straightforward to use as wget, especially for someone that may be
> new
> (e.g., the majority of those using documentation on a new
> installation
> of Fedora)?
>
Then shouldn't wget be installed by default?
I would think so. Can we call that a bug/enhancement and see if
they'll do that for F11? I mean... what's the size of wget? I can't
be more than a few hundred KB.
- Matthew
12:21 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 12:07:10AM -0500, Matthew Daniels wrote:
I would think so. Can we call that a bug/enhancement and see if
they'll
do that for F11? I mean... what's the size of wget? I can't be more
than a few hundred KB.
It's 1.5 MB, according to rpm -qi wget, but the .rpm file itself is
600kB. IIRC, the former would be on the Live distribution, while the
latter is on the mirrors and the install media.
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11:28 p.m.
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 23:04 -0600, Ian Weller wrote:
>
Then shouldn't wget be installed by default?
I was fearful of making the same suggestion myself, since this is the
Docs list, but that's what I think is best as well. Frankly, I'm quite
surprised it was never included in the first place. I actually thought
it was part of the core utilities needed to admin a system.
________________________________________________________________________
Basil Mohamed Gohar
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www.basilgohar.com
12:25 a.m.
Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 10:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In documentation, wherever we are using wget, it is probably better to
> use curl instead since wget is not installed by default on the Live CD
> while curl is. Just a thought.
>
> Rahul
>
I ran into this problem (missing wget) after installing from the F10
LiveCD, so I can relate. However, I've no experience with curl, and I
must say, curl --help is somewhat intimidating. Is it as
straightforward to use as wget, especially for someone that may be new
(e.g., the majority of those using documentation on a new installation
of Fedora)?
The basic usage is simple.
curl <url>
If you want to suggest wget be (re-)added, that is a fedora-desktop list
discussion.
Rahul
11:35 p.m.
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi,
In documentation, wherever we are using wget, it is probably better to
use curl instead since wget is not installed by default on the Live CD
while curl is. Just a thought.
Rahul
Sure I can update future docs if you can point me at the thread where
they decided to drop it.
Chris
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