OpenSSL as Base package

[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

and they all come with OpenSSL pre-installed. The only trouble I see with this
is currently Cygwin OpenSSL has Perl dependency. Debian has resolved this by
maintaining 2 Perl packages

    http://packages.debian.org/perl-base
    includes /bin/perl
    1.4 MB

    http://packages.debian.org/perl
    includes /bin/cpan
    4.2 MB

Of course the Cygwin package sizes will be different, but it shows significant
space can be saved for users who do not need a full Perl install. This does fly
in the face of my previous protestations

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-10/msg00563.html
    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-06/msg00279.html
    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00152.html

However by my calculations this could change the package sizes to

    current Cygwin perl  14.0 MB
    new Cygwin perl-base  3.5 MB
    new Cygwin perl      10.5 MB

I think most people would be fine with having a small Cygwin "perl-base" in the
"Base" category.

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