Re: OpenSSL as Base package

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec 16 16:11, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Steven Penny!
> 
> > I feel that OpenSSL should be a Cygwin Base package. I looked at these distros
> 
> >     Debian  http://debian.org/CD/live
> >     Fedora  http://spins.fedoraproject.org/lxde
> >     Puppy   http://puppylinux.org
> >     Porteus http://porteus.org
> >     MSYS2   http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2
> 
> How any of this is relevant to Cygwin?
> 
> > and they all come with OpenSSL pre-installed.
> 
> The question is, what for? In default OS installation, there's dime a dozen
> applications, that use SSL in one way or another. It takes a considerable
> effort to NOT install any of them.
> What is dependent on OpenSSL in base Cygwin?
> 
> > The only trouble I see with this is currently Cygwin OpenSSL has Perl
> > dependency.
> 
> That's likely a bug.

The openssl package comes with two perl scripts.  The dependency
gets added automatically.


Corinna

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