On 2/6/23 19:00, David A. Wheeler wrote:
>> oh yeah, we all like curl. I wonder what kind of user needs curl, though.
>> You mentioned that some packages in Debian will "just work" if curl is working. Can you name any of them? I think that would be very valuable info!
> Sorry, what I meant was, "I expect that some packages in Debian will "just work" if curl is working".
> I don't have a specific list.
However, we try to add feature to Tails when they are improving
something for our personas (see
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/personas/ ). In this specific case, I
think we don't have an example of how can curl, directly or indirectly,
help our personas.
It's really easy to add the configuration you propose to Tails. But it
will add to our QA process: if we tell our users that they can expect
curl to work fine, we'd better test it regularly!
All in all, the cost is low but not negligible, while the benefit for
our personas seems to be zero. So my personal opinion is that it's not
worth it *until* there is a clear use case that is helped by supporting
curl.
Bye,
--
boyska
