On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:28:16 +0200
Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Kamil Dudka <kdu...@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > The curl and libcurl packages, which are both required by dnf,  
> 
> Hm, does dnf really require curl? On my F-23 box:
> 
> $ rpm -e --test curl
> error: Failed dependencies:
> curl is needed by (installed) rpmdevtools-8.6-2.fc23.noarch
> curl is needed by (installed) pyrpkg-1.36-1.fc23.noarch
> curl is needed by (installed)
> dracut-live-043-63.git20151211.fc23.x86_64 curl is needed by
> (installed) libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.6.4-1.fc23.x86_64 curl is
> needed by (installed) abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.8.0-3.fc23.x86_64 curl
> is needed by (installed) abrt-addon-xorg-2.8.0-3.fc23.x86_64 curl is
> needed by (installed) rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.12.fc23.x86_64 curl is needed
> by (installed) fedora-packager-0.5.10.7-1.fc23.noarch
> 
> Ah, rpm requires it (through %__urlhelpercmd). So I suppose there's
> the use case for curl-minimal I was wondering about.
> 
> >     
> > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/curl.git/log/?h=private-kdudka-libcurl-minimal
> >   
> 
> libcurl.so.x.y.z.minimal looks pretty weird to me, and wrong as well
> because it stuffs "minimal" into the version part, but the minimalism
> here is not really related to the version. Did you consider e.g.
> libcurl-minimal.so.x.y.z instead?

The installed soname is exactly the same as the regular libcurl
version, making them interchangeable. The .minimal suffix is removed by
rpm at packaging time using RemovePathPostfixes:

Paul.
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