Re: F37 Change: Curl-minimal as default (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 12:00:06PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CurlMinimal_as_Default
> 
> == Summary ==
> `libcurl-minimal` and `curl-minimal` will be installed by default
> instead of `libcurl` and `curl`.
> The "minimal" variants provide only a subset of protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP).
> The full versions can be explicitly requested as `libcurl-full` and `curl-full`.
> 
> == Owner ==
> * Name: [[User:Zbyszek| Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]]
> * Email: zbyszek at in.waw.pl
> * Name: [[User:Kdudka| Kamil Dudka]]
> * Email: kdudka at redhat.com
> 
> 
> == Detailed Description ==
> 
> The `curl` package provides two sets of subpackages: `curl`+`libcurl`
> and `curl-minimal`+`libcurl+minimal`.
> `curl-minimal`+`libcurl-minimal` are compiled with various
> semi-obsolete protocols and infrequently-used features disabled:
> DICT, GOPHER, IMAP, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, NTLM, POP3, RTSP, SMB, SMTP,
> SFTP, SCP, TELNET, TFTP, brotli compression, IDN2 names.

Did you discuss modularising curl itself upstream?  That would be a
better idea.  Then we could package up the various *.so drivers into
separate packages.

Also I think this whole business of minimizing Fedora is getting way
out of hand.

Rich.

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