Subject: Re: Git-bug: Dependency of curl

From: Rune Zedeler <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:53:10 +0100

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