Re: switching libcurl back to OpenSSL and providing the libcurl-minimal subpackage

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Hello, Kamil.

On Wednesday, 05 April 2017 at 15:52, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> In order to make even smaller Fedora base images, it was proposed to switch
> libcurl back to OpenSSL.  The Fedora Crypto Consolidation project, which
> motivated the switch of libcurl from OpenSSL to NSS ten years ago, is now
> deprecated and libcurl is the only package that pulls NSS as its dependency
> into the Fedora base image.  Hence, by switching libcurl back to OpenSSL, we
> could create Fedora base image that contains fewer crypto libraries inside.

Please open a system wide change request for F27 for this, as this affects
a couple hundred of packages, including some on the critical path.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy#Complex_system_wide_changes

This is a good move to reduce the dependencies in my opinion, but as
seen elsewhere in this thread, it needs to be thoroughly tested.

Regards,
Dominik
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