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Re: Git-bug: Dependency of curl

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RZRune Zedeler <rz@daimi.au.dk>
Date
Jan 23, 2007, 02:53 UTC
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James Purser wrote:
> I've brought this to the notice of the Ubuntu guys (via Launchpad etc).
> From what I can understand the way they've got it setup is as a
> "recommended" rather than "required" download.

Okay, thanks. As curl is commonly used with git, and ubuntu-users (yours truly included) are not used to packages not working out of the box, it would be nice with a more pedagogical error message if you try to use git with curl and curl is not installed.

-Rune
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