Bug 2216754
| Summary: | rpm requires curl | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Petr Pisar <ppisar> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 39 | CC: | igor.raits, mdomonko, packaging-team-maint, pmatilai |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle. Changing version to 39. |
I discovered that rpm depends on curl: # rpm -e curl error: Failed dependencies: curl is needed by (installed) rpm-4.18.91-1.fc39.x86_64 I was curious why is there the dependency. I found this in a changelog: +* Wed Jul 08 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> +- 4.5.90-0.git8424.3 +- require curl as external url helper and then I found bug #843693 showing "rpm --import http://...". Is this feature and the dependency really used these days? I was under impression that downloading packages and keys from the Internet is a task for DNF. Could you consider removing the dependency, or at least making it optional (Recommends instead of Requires)? I believe users of containers and Mock would appreciate it. Reproducible: Always