Fedora considers curl-minimal
Fedora considers curl-minimal
Posted Mar 10, 2022 7:27 UTC (Thu) by Lionel_Debroux (subscriber, #30014)Parent article: Fedora considers curl-minimal
Disabling support for e.g. DICT and GOPHER might not inconvenience many persons indeed, and SCP needs to be phased out in favor of SFTP. Maybe IMAP, POP3 and SMTP are best left to MTAs and MUAs, too.
I'm less convinced about disabling SFTP (and TFTP, to a lesser extent) by default, requiring users to explicitly install full libcurl. libcurl's a nice, unified API for downloading and uploading files through FTP(S), HTTP(S) and SFTP protocols. I've already done that in a professional setup, and I'm definitely not the only one.
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