Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015/06/01 10:20, patrick keshishian wrote: > > On 6/1/15, Sunil Nimmagadda <su...@nimmagadda.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:16:09PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > > >> screw ftp. just make a new util http, that just does http. > > Sorry, it's not good enough to replace ftp(1) for system use without > ftp. Like it or not, ports fetches need FTP and can't really rely on > installing something for ports to do that.
It's not obvious to me why this would be the case. The ports tree already depends on various external programs to extract xz, cab, etc.
