Fedora considers curl-minimal

Posted Mar 14, 2022 14:45 UTC (Mon) by Paf (subscriber, #91811)
In reply to: Fedora considers curl-minimal by PengZheng
Parent article: Fedora considers curl-minimal

That’s not true at all. Curl is a regular - if horrifying - component of scripts.

And this isn’t “reducing developers power”. There’s literally going to be a “with ancient unused protocols fully intact” version *also packaged by Fedora*. For our theoretical developer, ‘fixing’ curl so it can support Gopher again is one brief command away.

Fedora considers curl-minimal

Posted Mar 15, 2022 8:07 UTC (Tue) by PengZheng (subscriber, #108006) [Link]

It's no surprise to me that the biggest user of curl is backend developer (page 4 of https://daniel.haxx.se/media/curl-user-poll-2021-analysis...). It will be a big surprise to most users (and programs using libcurl) that the "swiss army knife" has only 4 built-in protocols.

A safe default setting should be enough solving the mentioned problem.