OpenSSL as Base package
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Dec 16 13:26:00 GMT 2014
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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