From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 22 1:25:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BCB37B6EE; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:25:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA85407; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:25:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:25:21 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: "David O'Brien" Cc: satoshi@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding CRYPTO knobs In-Reply-To: <20000221160202.A43964@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > 4.0-R is closly upon us, and I'll be gathering the Crypto distfiles soon. > It would be a REALLY big help to me if we could add a "CRYPTO" knob to > port's Makefile. Having to grep for "RESTRICTED" and reading the reason > why is not as easy on me as a standard knob. This sounds like a good idea. > Also, with such a knob, a non-USA person could build the crypto packages > and offer them on their FTP site. This would certainly make SSH, et. al. > easier to install. Agreed. I dont know what kind of resources internat has, but a low-power version of Satoshi's package building cluster, only building crypto packages would be a good thing to have there. Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message