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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:25:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
Cc:        satoshi@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: adding CRYPTO knobs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002220122340.84878-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000221160202.A43964@dragon.nuxi.com>

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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

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