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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