On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 06:52:26AM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Brian Smith <bsm...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > Mike Hommey wrote: > >> But linux users are not necessarily up-to-date with the latest NSS. I > >> seriously doubt the number of users with the very last system nss > >> exceeds 10% of the linux user base except in exceptional "good > >> timing" cases (like when ubuntu is released with the latest version), > >> but that doesn't last long). > > > > If the system NSS isn't new enough, then Firefox's local version of NSS > > would be used. > > From a packager point of view, please don't automagically detect these > things. If the system NSS is supported provide an option > --with-system-nss which if not set will use the bundled NSS.
He is talking about runtime detection. Not build time detection. And we already have --with-system-nss. My point is that it's probably not worth trying to do runtime detection because few systems will have the right system nss anyways. Mike -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
