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Re: OpenSSL as Base package
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:11:41 +0300
- Subject: Re: OpenSSL as Base package
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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.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 16.12.2014, <16:09>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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