Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> apt-get remove --purge libssl0.9.7 gives me tons of packages. Just
> an estimation: We need to repack half of all packages then?
NO.[1]
All that needs to happen is that GPLed packages without an OpenSSL
linking exception either need to:
1) Get a linking exception.
2) Stop linking with OpenSSL.
Nothing more needs to be done.
Don Armstrong
1: This has been seriously discussed in hideous detail at least 10
times already. The list archives are your friend.
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