Well, after posting this I got a fair amount of negative feedback on
IRC. The biggest concern seems to be that Apple might not be prompt
with security updates, and when it makes them, the headers might get
out of sync with the libraries.
So I will shelve this idea for now.
-- Dave
On Sep 6, 2004, at 4:53 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Dear Fink developers,
A few of us were discussing the possibility of switching a number of
fink packages from the fink-provided openssl to the built-in openssl.
This would allow us to include ssl functionality even in the
non-crypto tree, and could cut down on potential errors from mixing
and matching duplicate packages (like gnome-vfs-shlibs and
gnome-vfs-ssl-shlibs).
I've made experimental packages for openslp-ssl, gnome-vfs2-ssl, and
curl-ssl (in experimental/dmrrsn) which link to the system's openssl
as proof-of-concept, and RangerRick made them for kdelibs3-ssl and
kdebase3-ssl in his experimental tree.
Our ability to do this relies on the BuildConflicts functionality
which is now present in fink. By using "BuildConflicts: openssl-dev,
openssl097-dev", we prevent the packages from linking to the fink
versions, and they are forced to link to the system's version.
Note that anything which has cryptographic code of its own would need
to stay in the crypto tree, but things which are there only by virtue
of linking to openssl could be moved back to the main tree, were this
to be adopted.
There may be some potential troubles with this approach, including
upgrade problems. So we want to thoroughly discuss it here before
taking the next steps.
Thanks for your input,
Dave
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