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--- Comment #2 from Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com ---
Maybe not a conversation for the bug, but what I don't get is *why* having
https optional is a feature; I cannot think of other web clients that have it
optional in this way.
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--- Comment #3 from Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com ---
(1) It brings nontrivial amount of dependencies. Especially crypto
dependencies.
(2) The whole idea of libwww is to be pluggable. There is support for FTP,
Gopher, NNTP, etc. HTTPS is just
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--- Comment #4 from Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com ---
1) Only additional dependencies over perl-libwww-perl (from installing in a
chroot) are Mozilla-CA and itself, total of 22k.
2) Right, and ftp, gopher, nntp are all in the main
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--- Comment #5 from Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com ---
(1) You have lost the TLS implementation somewhere.
(2) Well, they do not require the whole bunch of TLS stuff.
I got a message yesterday that Fedora's rpm finally understands optional
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Petr Pisar ppi...@redhat.com changed:
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