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Date:      Thu, 02 Aug 2001 21:44:27 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib Makefile src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.sbin Makefile 
Message-ID:  <200108022044.f72KiSr16281@grimreaper.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <83876.996768147@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> ; from Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>  "Thu, 02 Aug 2001 18:02:27 %2B0200."
References:  <83876.996768147@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> 

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> This is another one of those situations where someone has what seems to
> be a good idea and rushes it into the tree.  Soon afterward, problems
> with the idea become evident.  But instead of undoing the damage, we
> press on, wrapping ourselves tighter and tighter in the mess.

No it is not.

> Can't we just acknowledge that trying to get rid of libgmp wasn't such a
> hot idea for the here and now and revert that change?

It is a step in  the right direction. Next step is to emasculate
libcrypto (a-la libcrypt) so that a "safe" version having only
bignum and hashing can optionally depend on one with hard crypto.

M
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Mark Murray
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