On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 16:00 +0300, Nikolay Vladimirov wrote: > On (12/08/08 08:25), Josh Boyer wrote: > > I'd like to formally request that this curl change be reverted: > > > > * Mon Aug 11 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> 7.18.2-4 > > - make miniature library for libcurl.so.3 > > > > Due to the fact that it was simply made to accommodate proprietary > > software, as described in this blog entry: > > > > http://wtogami.livejournal.com/27778.html > > > > There are at least a dozen other proprietary applications that could > > "benefit" from making similar changes to other packages, and we > > certainly wouldn't make those changes for them. Flash should be no > > different. > > > > josh > > > > The change just provides some backward compatibility. It's minimal. > I really think it's not important why the change was made. Since it > doesn't break anything and it doesn't waste disk space. It may be > useful for some dead opensource projects that use the older version. There are better ways to do this. Providing a compat-curl package is the proper way. The way it was done now is just a hack with the sole intention of making flash work again. > If we remove everything that helps prop stuff work we should > remove libflashsupport and a bunch of other stuff. You would have no objection from me there, but I'm not pushing for that at this time. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
