From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GnuTLS/TLS proposals for after the release Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 18:22:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83shv1wvcv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87furnhj3g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871t2obge8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83wpkfxcu9.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9bj6mnm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83poq7x9ow.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469201011 4388 80.91.229.3 (22 Jul 2016 15:23:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 22 17:23:25 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bQcIN-00039b-5C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:23:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47936 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQcIJ-00029k-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQcHf-000283-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQcHZ-0001OO-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:22:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41061) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQcHZ-0001OK-JP; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1780 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bQcHY-0000e5-A9; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:22:33 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:38:50 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206036 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:38:50 -0400 > > >> Very. It can be installed, even if it's not pre-installed, easily on all > >> the major distributions AFAIK. > > I asked about the pre-installed part. If libgnutls is already > > sufficiently widely available, then requiring it will not annoy users. > > I think having both the library and its include files installed is just > as unlikely as for the other libraries we require (jpeg/gif/png). If that is true, then there's no problem to have libgnutls handled the same as the image libraries: require them, or --without-gnutls, for the configure script to succeed.