XFree86 available via yum

[Mike A. Harris]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Barry K. Nathan wrote:

>[snip]
>> make them available in both locations.  Personally, I favour ftp, 
>> as it works with commandline ncftp, etc. and I dislike using text 
>> web browsers in place of commandline ftp clients...  ;o)
>
>lftp is a command-line FTP client that supports HTTP, however :)
>To see this, try: lftp http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/
>If you're still not convinced, change the "http" to "ftp" and watch it
>fail.

I'm not looking for new software tools however.  ncftp, mc, and 
other tools I use now and have used for 8+ years still work 
perfectly fine for me today.  I use FTP both graphically in 
mozilla, fullscreen in text with Midnight Commander's ftpfs 
virtual filesystem, and with ncftp and other commandline tools 
like wget, etc.  They work fine.   I use mozilla mostly for web 
browsing.

The ftp protocol while sometimes a PITA to IP filter effectively 
in either direction, is quite functional, and it does support 
features which generally all commandline ftp clients, and many 
GUI ftp clients do not support.  HTTP either doesn't support that 
at all, or if it does, it isn't commonly known and/or implemented 
in common web browser software.

Either way, even if I could chmod files, create directories, move 
things, etc. with HTTP, I'm not about to change 8 years of habits 
for no really useful gain.  ;o)


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat