[PATCH 1/2] wget: make default timeout configurable, remove a duplicate line
Lauri Kasanen
curaga at operamail.com
Thu Oct 17 08:48:31 UTC 2013
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013, at 22:23, Harald Becker wrote:
> >> 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)?
>
> Just a suggestion ...
>
> Support for .wgetrc is much bloat. What about looking for
> environment variable WGET_TIMEOUT? Ok it is not compatible with
> other other wget versions, but BB wget isn't neither.
Checking for an env var would be more size. Having it as a compile-time
configure option means no size change, and we don't need the default to
change at runtime.
- Lauri
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