Re: introducing curl-minimal and libcurl-minimal RPM packages

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On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 15:11:07 Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2016-03-16 14:07, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 20:28:16 Ville Skyttä wrote:
> >>>      http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/curl.git/log/?h=private-kdu
> >>>      dka
> >>>      -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?
> > 
> > Are you reading it from the specfile?
> > 
> > It is just an implementation detail of the packaging (the
> > RemovePathPostfixes feature of rpm).  The string you mentioned neither
> > appears in the SONAME, nor in any file installed by the RPMs in question.
> > 
> > libcurl-minimal is really a drop-in replacement for libcurl, keeping its
> > ABI.
> As RPM uses the curl command and not libcurl, maybe curl-minimal should
> be built with a static libcurl to avoid needing two libcurl packages?

dnf requires python-pycurl, which requires libcurl.  So any Fedora 
installation containing dnf would pull libcurl in anyway.

As explained in another thread, the libcurl and libcurl-minimal packages
will never ever be installed together on a single system.

Kamil
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