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Fedora considers curl-minimal

Fedora considers curl-minimal

Posted Mar 15, 2022 12:29 UTC (Tue) by Paf (subscriber, #91811)
In reply to: Fedora considers curl-minimal by bagder
Parent article: Fedora considers curl-minimal

Given curls use in scripts and other tools used in installers, etc, I feel comfortable saying the user survey is massively *unrepresentative* of use.

Those interested enough in curl to take the survey are vastly more likely to use weird protocols.

In essence we see it has two lives:
A basic system component which is worked in to the fabric of other things, in which role it uses HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP to get stuff from the internet
A Swiss army utility protocol fiddler/translator for developers and admins

It doesn’t seem crazy these would be separate packages, given the risks posed to the (much larger) first group, and the minor burden introduced for the second group who know how to deal with it.


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