From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 3 6:40:10 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from arb.arb.za.net (arb.arb.za.net [196.7.148.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE81537B401; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 06:39:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by arb.arb.za.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with UUCP id f73DdqU47913; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:39:52 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (mark@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.za (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f72KiSr16281; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 21:44:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200108022044.f72KiSr16281@grimreaper.grondar.za> To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Maxim Sobolev , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib Makefile src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.sbin Makefile References: <83876.996768147@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: <83876.996768147@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> ; from Sheldon Hearn "Thu, 02 Aug 2001 18:02:27 +0200." Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 21:44:27 +0100 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message