On Wednesday 16 March 2016 17:25:26 Bill Nottingham wrote: > Kamil Dudka (kdudka@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 16:19:23 Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Kamil Dudka (kdudka@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > 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. > > > > > > ... which means if the SONAME is the same, you either are dealing with > > > > > Conflicts: > > Exactly. libcurl conflicts with libcurl-minimal, which means that exactly > > one of them will be installed on any Fedora system at a time. On a > > regular system (server, desktop, etc.) it will always be libcurl. > > > > On the other hand, if you need to create a minimal installation of Fedora > > (e.g. a base image for Docker), you will pick libcurl-minimal instead of > > libcurl, to make the set of installed packages really minimal. > > That just seems an odd place to make a stand on size. > > If you care about a consistent developer, user, and debugging experience > regardless of mechanism of delivery, you wouldn't do this in the first > place, or you'd change the global curl package. Either the features are > important, or they aren't. Are you implying that curl maintainers know better than users which features are important for the users themselves? > If you care about minimizing size overall (neglecting the fact that > cutting out kerberos and to a lesser extent ldap dependencies don't really > save you anything due to their system library use), then might as well just > start -Os-ing random packages and throwing in busybox. Micro-optimization is way to hell. The system needs to optimized by design. As for Kerberos, I have already restored the feature in libcurl-minimal, based on the discussion in this thread: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/curl.git/commit/?id=92700939 As for the dependency on OpenLDAP libraries, there was a request to drop it, which we were not able to satisfy at that time: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1029089 Kamil > Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
