Re: GnuTLS/TLS proposals for after the release

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> 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.