feature request: add option to use `curl` instead of `wget`

[dm9pZCAq]

i'm currently using this:

diff --git a/app-eselect/eselect-repository/eselect-repository-9.ebuild b/app-eselect/eselect-repository/eselect-repository-9.ebuild
index b0b71d29e52..e3aa6be425a 100644
--- a/app-eselect/eselect-repository/eselect-repository-9.ebuild
+++ b/app-eselect/eselect-repository/eselect-repository-9.ebuild
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ SRC_URI="https://github.com/mgorny/eselect-repository/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> $
 LICENSE="BSD-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~x64-macos"
+IUSE="+curl"
 REQUIRED_USE=${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}
 
 RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
@@ -20,7 +21,19 @@ RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
 		dev-python/lxml[${PYTHON_MULTI_USEDEP}]
 	')
-	net-misc/wget"
+	!curl? ( net-misc/wget )
+	curl? ( net-misc/curl )
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	if use curl; then
+		sed -i repository.eselect.in \
+			-e 's/wget -N -P/curl -LO --create-dirs --output-dir/' \
+		|| die
+	fi
+
+	default
+}
 
 src_compile() {
 	MAKEARGS=(

but may be you can add option to do this through Makefile

[mgorny]

I'd rather make the tool configurable via the config file.