Re: Depending on security/ca-certificates?

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On Monday, July 19th, 2021 at 19:31, nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 12:40:38PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
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> > -   I don't understand how and why this is different from
> >
> >     mozilla-rootcerts and mozilla-rootcerts-openssl
>
> i think ca-certificates was imported to match various Linux
>
> distributions which use the package name "ca-certificate".
>
> but IMO it just adds to the confusion, especially since
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> most existing users will be using mozilla-rootcerts.

Speaking about adding to the confusion, a new user installs git and can not clone a single repo.

I understand why no packages pull-in certeficates but, new users won't.