On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 11:55:39AM +0100, Alex wrote: > Hi. > > I have seen in https://lwn.net/Articles/887313/ that you plan to remove the > "telnet" protocol from curl-minimal. > > I use `curl -v telnet://....` almost every day for debugging purpose just > because curl is in the most systems by default installed. > I know that there are some other tools like socat, normal telnet, nmap and so > on but this tools need to be installed which is not always possible when > fedora is used as docker image. > > there was also a short presentation about how to use curl telnet for debugging > on a curl up meeting. > https://curl.se/video/curlup-2017/2017-03-18_02_Aleksandar_Lazic_curl_for_network_debugging.mp4 > > May I suggest to leave at least the telnet protocol in curl-minimal for > debugging purposes.
The problem is that there's many many debugging tools, and everybody has their own favourites. You like 'curl -v telnet://', I like 'ss' and 'tcpdump', somebody else likes 'lsfd' and so on. I agree that it *can* be very useful to have a debugging tool installed, but it is a very weak argument for adding those tools always by default. In particular, 'bash' is very useful for all kinds of debugging, but if possible, it is very good *not* to have it in minimal containers for the usual reasons (size, dependencies, exposure). The goal of this change is make it possible (ephasize *possible*) to have a smaller curl that is useful for the *very common* (emphasis again) tasks. So sorry, if you want to use curl-telnet for debugging, please just install curl-full. This is status quo, so with the proposed change you'll not be any worse off. That said: depending on how the proposal evolves, I think it make sense to add more virtual provides for each protocol, so that we can handle the cases where something moves from -minimal to -full more gracefully, so e.g. you'd be able to do 'dnf install "curl(protocol/telnet)" or something like that. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
