On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:08 PM Kevin Kofler via devel <
devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Steve Grubb wrote:
> > I'd like to suggest making libcurl-minimal very minimal for security
> > reasons. The main curl package has many security issues (CVE's)
> > constantly. But usually, the problem is in some obscure feature/protocol.
> > Looking at the packages that depend on libcurl with rpmreaper, most would
> > use http(s). There might be some that use another protocol. But clear
> text
> > protocols like telnet and ftp really don't have a use in today's
> internet.
> > Too many threats for clear text.
>
> I suspect that disabling FTP in libcurl is going to break a lot of stuff.
>

I'd be curious, what package uses curl for it's FTP support?

-Steve
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