[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Use curl instead of wget

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015, at 12:23 AM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:

> In general, I'm not against trimming this dependency. However, please
> follow existing pattern by defining paths.BIN_CURL and using it instead
> of paths.BIN_WGET. FreeIPA client runs on Debian GNU/Linux-based
> platforms as well and we need to keep the abstraction.

I understand this would be a separate patch...but I don't understand paths.py
at all.

First, why not just search $PATH?  util.py already sets up a
sanitized $PATH (although setting environment variables
like this is not threadsafe, but that's another bug).

Second, it's also in /usr/bin on Debian:
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/amd64/curl/filelist