On 2021-01-26 07:36:46 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 06:27:40AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The thing I don't get was that is the direct command from their buildit > > page. You would think that would lead to such a common failure that it > > would be documented. > > Nobody should have to guess that the reader has a custom ~/.wgetrc file > with multiple non-default options set to "on". It is completely unfair > to put the blame for this on the writers of documentation that involves > downloading files.
Having non-default options in a .wgetrc file is the point of a .wgetrc file. :-) But perhaps wget should not read a config by default. This is what GNU grep did by no longer supporting GREP_OPTIONS: if a user wants default options, he can create an alias (with a name different from any common utility). For instance, for grep, I have a "gr" alias: it is shorter to type and doesn't break the default usage of grep (which may be needed in scripts and in commands from documentation). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
