On Tuesday, February 22, 2022 9:45:30 PM CET Peter Robinson wrote:
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 5:00 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com>
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CurlMinimal_as_Default
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> == Summary ==
> `libcurl-minimal` and `curl-minimal` will be installed by default
> instead of `libcurl` and `curl`.
> The "minimal" variants provide only a subset of protocols (HTTP, HTTPS,
> FTP).
Does it make sense to keep FTP with most browsers obsoleting the
protocol due to lack of security?
Not yet, in my opinion. But it is a controversial topic, as you can see
in the preceding discussion on this mailing list. Of course, each application
that does not need FTP, can disable the protocol at run-time. But disabling
it globally on default installations of Fedora would make this change too
controversial. We can reconsider it later in case the initial change is well
accepted.
Kamil