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Re: pkg_add and remote packages



> That's true and it's an important technical improvement in using
> libfetch over a separate ftp(1) process.

JIMHO using external fetching program is MUCH better than
linking with any kind of libraries.

IMHO using library for this kind of tasks is a very serious design BUG.
This is absolutely obvious. Proxies, unusual
protocols for fetching (CIFS/smbclient for example),
p2p networks, etc. etc. etc.

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.


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