From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 7 4:24:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A9F37B401 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 04:24:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC5543E91 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 04:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maild.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g77BNIvX020908 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:23:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h62n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.62]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA03271 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:23:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 65034 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Aug 2002 11:23:17 -0000 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:23:16 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Terry Lambert Cc: Mark Murray , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenSSL vs. -lmd Message-ID: <20020807112316.GA65008@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , Mark Murray , arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3D4A43DB.5DE70508@mindspring.com> <200208070736.g777a11p003654@grimreaper.grondar.org> <3D50E590.66BCE6B6@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D50E590.66BCE6B6@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 02:17:04AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Mark Murray wrote: > > Perl was removed from the base system because > > > > 1) It was hard to maintain in the base > > I would argue that this is the result of being actively maintained > by a third party. I believe it was more due to the fact that Perl's build system and FreeBSD's build system did not work well together. This [snip] > > > > OpenSSL is very easy to maintain in the base tree - its API is > > stable (sure, its being added to), and it can be removed from the > > world build trivially. > > Not without a comparable loss of functionality, starting with > having no non-console access available by default. > > I'd also argue that the base system version would be 0.9.6e > right now, of maintenance was as trivial as you imply that it > is. Since the base system version is 0.9.6e right now, I guess maintenance of OpenSSl isn't too hard. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message