On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:28:16 +0200 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Kamil Dudka <kdudka@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > The curl and libcurl packages, which are both required by dnf, > > Hm, does dnf really require curl? On my F-23 box: > > $ rpm -e --test curl > error: Failed dependencies: > curl is needed by (installed) rpmdevtools-8.6-2.fc23.noarch > curl is needed by (installed) pyrpkg-1.36-1.fc23.noarch > curl is needed by (installed) > dracut-live-043-63.git20151211.fc23.x86_64 curl is needed by > (installed) libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.6.4-1.fc23.x86_64 curl is > needed by (installed) abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.8.0-3.fc23.x86_64 curl > is needed by (installed) abrt-addon-xorg-2.8.0-3.fc23.x86_64 curl is > needed by (installed) rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.12.fc23.x86_64 curl is needed > by (installed) fedora-packager-0.5.10.7-1.fc23.noarch > > Ah, rpm requires it (through %__urlhelpercmd). So I suppose there's > the use case for curl-minimal I was wondering about. > > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/curl.git/log/?h=private-kdudka-libcurl-minimal > > libcurl.so.x.y.z.minimal looks pretty weird to me, and wrong as well > because it stuffs "minimal" into the version part, but the minimalism > here is not really related to the version. Did you consider e.g. > libcurl-minimal.so.x.y.z instead? The installed soname is exactly the same as the regular libcurl version, making them interchangeable. The .minimal suffix is removed by rpm at packaging time using RemovePathPostfixes: Paul. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx