Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Add wrapper for using wget with a socks proxy.

[Darshit Shah]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:
> Darshit Shah <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Angel,
>>
>> I was wondering if the WGET variable should always contain the
>> absolute path to the executable. That way we do nopt rely on the $PATH
>> variable to detect wget. My suggestion would be to have the line
>> replaced as:
>> WGET=/usr/bin/wget
>>
>> So that the script always uses the wget executable and not any other
>> scripts called wget in $PATH
>
> I think it would be fine to assume that any "wget" in the PATH is
> actually the wget executable.  Isn't that better than using an absolute
> path? :-)
>

I guess so. Seems like the right way forward. In that case, maybe we
can push this patch?


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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah