Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:36:01 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenSSL vs. -lmd Message-ID: <200208070736.g777a11p003654@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <3D4A43DB.5DE70508@mindspring.com> ; from Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> "Fri, 02 Aug 2002 01:33:31 PDT." References: <3D4A43DB.5DE70508@mindspring.com>
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> OpenSSL is one example. Perl is another example. Note that > perl was recently removed from the base system using exactly > this reasoning. It was possible to remove it because it is > able to be seperate its functionality from the base system, > and place it in a package. OpenSSL is harder to seperate, but > that's really the fault of the base system not being composed > of package, not because it's "magically non-severable". That is a large misrepresentation. Perl was removed from the base system because 1) It was hard to maintain in the base 2) It was very big and getting much bigger very fast. Perl's severability was non-trivial - the kernel depended on it, and some pretty hairy programs were rewritten in C and AWK to enable its removal. We are still not finised with the Perl Script Rewrite. 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. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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