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0 pointstick_tock_tick5y ago0 comments

libc that's it. Every other dependency for curl is optional.....

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Try it. If you do not use any "optional" dependency it becomes pretty limited, almost useless for anything serious (eg. zlib, ssl)

asveikau5y ago

Zlib is pretty small.

TLS implementions are often giant hairballs but one that many things depend on. You can think of it as a somewhat "system level" dependency.

jdright5y ago

Being small is not in the question. Being there is. Otherwise we wouldn't be here discussing all hyper dependencies in detail as some of these are a lot smaller than zlib.

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jdright5y ago

Try it. If you do not use any "optional" dependency it becomes pretty limited, almost useless for anything serious (eg. zlib, ssl)

asveikau5y ago

Zlib is pretty small.

TLS implementions are often giant hairballs but one that many things depend on. You can think of it as a somewhat "system level" dependency.

jdright5y ago

Being small is not in the question. Being there is. Otherwise we wouldn't be here discussing all hyper dependencies in detail as some of these are a lot smaller than zlib.

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