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