Revert curl change made for flash

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Aug 12 12:31:45 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 08:25 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> I'd like to formally request that this curl change be reverted:
> 
> * Mon Aug 11 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 7.18.2-4
> - make miniature library for libcurl.so.3
> 
> Due to the fact that it was simply made to accommodate proprietary
> software, as described in this blog entry:
> 
> http://wtogami.livejournal.com/27778.html
> 
> There are at least a dozen other proprietary applications that could
> "benefit" from making similar changes to other packages, and we
> certainly wouldn't make those changes for them.  Flash should be no
> different.
> 
> josh

Would you rather a curl-compat-7.18.1 package went through the review
process to drop it's library on the filesystem?

-- 
Jesse Keating
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