[pacman-dev] [RFC] Replacing wget with curl in makepkg

[Sebastian Nowicki]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:

> The attached patch proposes to replace wget with curl as the default
> DLAGENT in makepkg for http, https, and ftp. This seems like the
> sane choice given our switch from fetch to curl.
>
> dave
>

+1

For some reason on Mac OS X (at least 10.5) there is no wget by default, so
I guess that's another reason to move to curl.