On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 1:08 PM, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 12:47:42PM -0500, Randall via curl-library wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. That seems to have made a positive difference. Would it not
>> make sense to automatically switch this off if the library is not
available?
>
>That's what happened before, with the result that several distributions had
it
>disabled more or less by accident. Given what libpsl does, that's not great
and can
>lead to security issues down the line.

Having a dependency like this, that is not trivially portable leading to
security issues in future, is rather problematic, don't you agree? Others in
the thread suggested building a single source file with no library
associations is not particularly useful without some hacking.

--Randall

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