On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Alexey Eremenko <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Kees Nuyt <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:18:48 +0200, you wrote: >>>> >>>>>VirtualBox works on single host, so theoretically, it should not need >>>>>OpenSSL. >>>> >>>> Perhaps for teleporting? >>>> -- >>> >>> wrong. >>> >>> OpenSSL is required since VBox 2.2, while teleporting is a v3.1 >>> feature. (according to >>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20build%20instructions) >>> It seems that OpenSSL is used for cURL as a dependency... >>> >>> New question: But why cURL itself is used in VirtualBox ? > > I don´t know where are you trying to get to. What is the problem of > Virtualbox needing curl, or openssl for that matter?. > > Checking for updates, perhaps?. >
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