curl instead of wget

Matthew Daniels danielsmw at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 05:07:10 UTC 2009


>> I ran into this problem (missing wget) after installing from the F10
>> LiveCD, so I can relate.  However, I've no experience with curl,  
>> and I
>> must say, curl --help is somewhat intimidating.  Is it as
>> straightforward to use as wget, especially for someone that may be  
>> new
>> (e.g., the majority of those using documentation on a new  
>> installation
>> of Fedora)?
>>
> Then shouldn't wget be installed by default?

I would think so.  Can we call that a bug/enhancement and see if  
they'll do that for F11?  I mean... what's the size of wget?  I can't  
be more than a few hundred KB.

- Matthew




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