curl is dependent on lua??

[gliderlabs]

curl is dependent on lua??

[progrium]

I think that's a question for the package maintainer.

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Kjetil Flovild-Midtlie <
[email protected]> wrote:

Why do curl need lua?

(not needed in opkg)/ # apk-install curl
fetch http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.1/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
(1/8) Installing run-parts (4.4-r0)
(2/8) Installing openssl (1.0.1k-r0)
(3/8) Installing lua5.2-libs (5.2.3-r0)
(4/8) Installing lua5.2 (5.2.3-r0)
(5/8) Installing lua5.2-posix (32-r1)
(6/8) Installing ca-certificates (20141019-r0)
(7/8) Installing libssh2 (1.4.3-r0)
(8/8) Installing curl (7.39.0-r0)
Executing busybox-1.22.1-r14.trigger
Executing ca-certificates-20141019-r0.trigger
OK: 8 MiB in 23 packages

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[jbergknoff]

In case it helps, curl depends on ca-certificates which depends on lua.

[barthalion]

Lua 5.2 is a dependency because we're using custom script for updating CA certificates. It shouldn't be too hard to rewrite it in POSIX sh though.

[ncopa]

we replaced the ca-sertificates script to lua instead of shell due to significant performance improvement: http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/2846#note-4

Lua is not that big. ~300k or so. Be happy its not perl or python (40M minimum) ;)

Shouldn't be too hard to replace it with C code in case someone cares enough.

[andyshinn]

I'm going to close this. While I would love to have a smaller C binary dependency, it is something that should be in the upstream issue tracker at https://bugs.alpinelinux.org. I totally agree with the idea for the minimilast Docker image. But it isn't something we can solve in this repository.