On Thursday, February 24, 2022 3:37:56 PM CET Neal Gompa wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 8:58 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 02:28:08PM +0100, Kamil Dudka wrote: > > > On Thursday, February 24, 2022 1:35:38 PM CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > Did you discuss modularising curl itself upstream? > > > > > > It was added to their wish list but I do not remember anybody working on it: > > > https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/8204844f > > > > > > > > That would be a better idea. > > > > > > Not necessarily. Each approach has its pros and cons. > > > > I'm intrigued by what you think the cons would be. AFAICT if curl was > > modular in this way already we wouldn't be discussing this proposal at > > all, > > but a different and better one around packaging splits. > > It would also avoid the usability nightmare that comes with trying to > trigger switching implementations. This is a very big hammer that > basically tells people that we're crippling curl by default for users > and it has very large network effects across the entire distribution. > It's quite one thing to use curl-minimal for containers where people > expect tools to be broken in the endless pursuit of smaller base > images, but when real people need to use real systems in complex > configurations, having a reduced functionality curl by default is just > going to lead to support nightmares and complaints about random > breakages in applications on Fedora.
Installations that need libcurl-full will have it installed. There is no problem there. You could hardly find a default that will fit everybody's taste. Kamil _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
