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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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