avoiding base openssl when building ports
Roger Marquis
marquis at roble.com
Mon Jun 1 16:34:47 UTC 2015
Kimmo Paasiala:
> Rumour is that something like that is going to happen with all of the
> problematic libraries by making them private. If someone with inside
> knowledge could confirm these rumours? ;)
Curious why this is a rumor? Open source operating systems should be
developed transparently, shouldn't they?
> This leads to another question. Where is the line going to be drawn
> which libraries in the base system should be private? There are
> certainly some of them that have to be public like libc and the
> support libraries like libusb. There is certainly no sense in making
> the ports system use full set of its own libraries for everything
> either.
I'd be happy just to to 'make buildworld -DWITHOUT_OPENSSL'.
Roger Marquis
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