Bug 1312435 - [RFE] provide curl-minimal and libcurl-minimal subpkgs with a lightweight build of curl
Summary: [RFE] provide curl-minimal and libcurl-minimal subpkgs with a lightweight bui...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: curl
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kamil Dudka
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 1306559
Blocks: base-minimization
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-26 16:56 UTC by Kamil Dudka
Modified: 2016-04-08 07:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-03-21 10:17:37 UTC
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Description Kamil Dudka 2016-02-26 16:56:30 UTC
The curl and libcurl packages, which are both required by dnf, have a lot of run-time dependencies.  I propose to maintain curl-minimal and libcurl-minimal subpackages obtained from a conservatively configured build of curl, resulting in a significant reduction of their run-time dependencies.  These curl-minimal and libcurl-minimal packages could be then installed as a replacement of curl and libcurl packages to reduce the footprint of minimal installation of Fedora.

An proof of concept is available in the private-kdudka-libcurl-minimal branch:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/curl.git/log/?h=private-kdudka-libcurl-minimal

Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2016-03-21 10:17:37 UTC
Based on the discussion at the Fedora Devel mailing-list, I came to conclusion that Fedora community is not yet ready for the proposed enhancement of curl packaging.  Feel free to reuse my work in the private-kdudka-libcurl-minimal dist-git branch once the political situation changes.


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