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Re: "sa-update" in SpamAssassin 3.4.0



On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:51:16 +0100
Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> wrote:
> > What does "predictable" buy you in this case?
> 
> It might avoid subtle e.g. proxy support or IPv6 support/preference
> which could cause the same binary package to work on one system
> which has "curl" installed and fail on another system which
> doesn't have "curl" installed.
> 
> I'm currently leaning toward using "TOOLS.curl" or "TOOLS.fetch" if
> set and otherwise use the "wget" package (which has less dependences
> than the "curl" package").

Why not patch it so that it just always uses the builtin method?

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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