Wait, what about this:

> - I was surprised to see that from the install image, curl, git, etc. would fail
>   with an SSL error.  It's annoying because I really needed to get my config.scm
>   from an online source.
> 
>   I only briefly investigated: the environment has
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs
> SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
>   but the install image only has a /etc/ssl file.

Is this broken or intentional?  Can you point me at where this is defined?

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