Package: apt-file
Version: N/A; reported 2005-05-20
Severity: important
apt-file should provide sane defaults:
1. should depend on wget | curl
2. should detect if the configuration of the user has not been modified (that
is, the standard command lines are used for retrieval) to avoid overriding
user customisations.
2.1 if the original command lines are used, detect if we have curl or wget
and chose the one the user has
(A way to do it would be to hardcode the curl | wget command lines in
apt-file and
$c_retrieval= ( $conf::c_retrieval ? $conf::c_retrieval : $main::c_retrieval)
and then find if we must use wget or curl:
if -f /usr/bin/wget : $retrieval = $c_retrieval )
2.2 if the user has customised the command lines, use those provided
3. get a more comprehensive error message regarding the need of a retrieval
tool
Right now, apt-file is unusable out of the box, and it would not be so
difficult to make it.
Thanks.
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