Re: pkg/32705 (add builtin support for curl)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 07:15:01PM +0000, Benny Siegert wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR pkg/32705; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
> 	jml%ascia.fi@localhost
> Subject: Re: pkg/32705 (add builtin support for curl)
> Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 21:11:49 +0200
> 
>  On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
>  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>  >  On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 12:22:14PM +0000, bsiegert%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
>  >  > Synopsis: add builtin support for curl
>  >
>  >  Due to the variants in how curl can be built, I don't believe this to be
>  >  a good idea.
>  
>  On the other hand, it might help with situations where ftp cannot do
>  https and you have no tool to fetch distfiles, no?

*tools* support for curl exists?

Joerg