Re: Installation on Fedora 8

2007/11/11, Hans-Joachim Baader <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> I have two problems installing under Fedora 8: libcurl.so.3
> is missing (only libcurl.so.4 is part of the system) and
> when installing e.g. VDrift, SDL_net is not found although
> it is installed.
>
> I noticed that autopackage needs libcurl.so.3, bzip2 and wget
> to install. But thes components are not always installed in the
> default install of distributions. This creates unnecessary trouble
> for users who cannot become root. Why doesn't autopackage contain
> all it needs? It should't have any dependency besides libc if it
> should be easy to use.

Well, this is always a trade-off. The benefit of using whatever is on
the system means it'll be updated by the distribution. I guess we made
the assumption that libcurl is a) a very common lib that comes with
"all" distros and/or b) it is important to use the latest up-to-date
version of the lib, with all security patches applied so we don't want
to ship a private copy.

Maybe we don't necessarily need .so.3 - .so.4 might work just as well
(this is a question, not a statement).
Curtis, Taj: Where do we actually use curl? I though we used wget for
all http/ftp accesses...

-Isak

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