Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:22:08 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dependencies: base vs. ports (Was: Re: ports/187468) Message-ID: <CACdU%2Bf_eqV8mFBK-4PN33r8RVfdr4OxB0TigSUHFtRro-PDksw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140313084240.GA15587@over-yonder.net> References: <531FAF5D.1010207@FreeBSD.org> <20140312044851.GA28621@FreeBSD.org> <53204C90.4050103@FreeBSD.org> <20140313084240.GA15587@over-yonder.net>
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd@over-yonder.net> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 07:01:20AM -0500 I heard the voice of > Bryan Drewery, and lo! it spake thus: >> >> Take openssl for example, [...] > > From the user perspective, this in particular has been an occasional > but steady low-level grumble of mine for years, and I've definitely > come to wish it were hidden away. The few times I've wanted a newer > version for something and tried using the ports openssl, it's just > turned into a giant mess of conflicts between the two and I've had to > give up and undertake a big cleanup process. Maybe if you set the > make.conf flag and go only ports openssl straight from the first > server setup it would work right, but I'm not even sure about _that_. > Wasn't there just a discussion earlier this week about something not > honoring it right? > This was caused by the port maintainer deciding to force the port to always us the base version of OpenSSL on FreeBSD >= 10. Instead of letting the sysadmin decide on which to use (port / base).
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