Otavio Salvador wrote: > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com> writes: > >> Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >>> I've removed some CC's. >>> >>> On Mon, January 19, 2009 12:47, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >>>> 1) insert apt-transport-https and all its deps into base system (libcurl, >>>> kerberos etc.) >>> I'm not sure if we need kerberos for this to work. Just like apt uses a >>> small version of gnupg to verify signatures, we can use a small version of >>> the https transport that satisfies our needs? >> apt-transport-https really depends only on curl, but curl itself has >> significant amount of dependencies, so maybe, it depends how the curl binary >> package could be split. > > Or we might consider an alternative way to provide a https method. Did > someone taken a look how difficult would be to write one? Oh, no, we don't need another reinvented wheel for https... (btw, who wants to re-implement openssl or gnutls? :)) We already have it for http and ftp (which are candidates to be replaced by libcurl (at least at my view)). -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor
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