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Date:      Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:23:16 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OpenSSL vs. -lmd
Message-ID:  <20020807112316.GA65008@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <3D50E590.66BCE6B6@mindspring.com>
References:  <3D4A43DB.5DE70508@mindspring.com> <200208070736.g777a11p003654@grimreaper.grondar.org> <3D50E590.66BCE6B6@mindspring.com>

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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.


-- 
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se

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