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Date:      Thu, 05 Feb 2004 23:30:52 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Resolving the crypto duplicity... 
Message-ID:  <3144.1076020252@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2004 07:45:49 MST." <20040205.074549.128866887.imp@bsdimp.com> 

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In message <20040205.074549.128866887.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>In message: <38921.1075966216@critter.freebsd.dk>
>            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>: But as I said, it may be time to discuss the overall issue of kld
>: dependencies, rather than just scratch my own little itch...
>
>Typically people just put the module dependency into their kld and get
>on with their lives.  There's really little to discuss except maybe
>making an opencrypto module...  At least as far as the dependency
>issue with klds.  I have no comment on the code duplication aspects.

And that means that "optional dependencies" are not in the picture ?

I want gbde to use opencrypto if it is there, but I do not want to
require it (since it is optional from GBDE's point of view).

Is there any sane way to do that ?

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