[conspire] Filezilla Re: FTP

[Michael Paoli]

> From: "paulz at ieee.org" <paulz at ieee.org>
> Subject: [conspire] FTP
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:27:53 +0000 (UTC)

> Since Filezilla requires the ftp daemon, why isn't it included in  
> the dependencies?  

Filezilla doesn't require an FTP daemon/server.  Filezilla is
basically a GUI interface FTP/FTPS/SFTP client.  So, sure, to
be useful, it needs a server ... somewhere, with FTP, or FTPS, or
SFTP ... but that could be dang near anywhere on dang near anything.
So ... if you use Filezilla to access some FTP server running on a
mainframe on The Internet ... well, there you go, there's your server
side of it.  The APT system is pretty dang capable, but for dependencies,
it doesn't have a way to say something must be some such-and-such type
of server somewhere out there not at all necessarily on this host.  That's
not what APT/dpkg dependencies do - they cover what's required to install
this software on this host.  They might toss in some relevant recommends
and/or suggests - for this host, but there's nothing about Filezilla that
requires any type of server be installed on the host where Filezilla is
being installed.

$ apt-cache search filezilla\$
filezilla - Full-featured graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client
$