Re: Depends generated by maintainer scripts

[Andrew Leiserson <aleiserson@rm-r.net>]

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 08:08:58PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:

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> Sugessting or recommending wget would be a bug, if you use wget. DON'T.
> Requireing something in /tmp is anoying.
> Downloading directly from the web might not be possible.
> 
> Your in trouble boy.
> 
> You could download the setiathome via a small perl script, wget is
> probably overkill. That removes one problem.
> 

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This isn't that difficult. See:

http://www.rm-r.net/~aleiserson/linux/pget.pl

which is a perl script to download a file using HTTP. It uses only standard
perl libraries (i.e. no libwww-perl).

Hope this helps,

Andy