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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:11:41 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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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.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 16.12.2014, <16:09>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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