[PATCH 1/2] wget: make default timeout configurable, remove a duplicate line

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Oct 16 12:29:27 UTC 2013


On Tuesday 15 October 2013 11:05, Lauri Kasanen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013, at 19:22, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > > > > wget: make default timeout configurable
> > > > 
> > > > Why? Upstream wget uses a fixed default timeout, 900.
> > > 
> > > We'd like to change it in one place instead of adding -T options to a
> > > ton of scripts.
> > 
> > But this will make your scripts depend on wget being the busybox's wget.
> > This plagued Unix world for some time. Not a good idea.
> > 
> > What upstream wget does to address such a case?
> 
> That's acceptable to us. We call it as "busybox wget" anyway when it
> matters, and in other places, it is a mere user experience tweak - it
> will not break anything if another wget was used.
> 
> GNU wget does kinda cater to this use: you can specify it in the .wgetrc
> file, but then that's only portable to GNU wget.

How about adding limited support for .wgetrc then (only for timeouts)?


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