On 28 August 2011 18:30, Kostik Belousov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 01:26:51PM -0400, Sahil Tandon wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 11:30:27 -0400, Carmel wrote:
>>
>> > My question is what changed? It worked before updating "libnotify". Is
>> > "libnotify" the culprit or "GNUTLS" or something else and why didn't
>> > anyone catch this problem sooner?
>>
>> The chain of dependencies during the libnotify update prompted the
>> upgrade of cups.  The latter's OpenSSL interfaces are explicitly
>> thread-safe, which GNU TLS is not.
>>
>> > There appears to be a lot of material released lately that is either
>> > broken or requiring a considerable amount of manual intervention.
>> > Perhaps a moratorium (port freeze) should be considered until all of
>> > the outstanding problems have been corrected.
>>
>> We are sorry for the inconvenience which is surely frustrating, but
>> freezing the tree because of this does not seem appropriate.
>
> Might be, completely ignoring the option 'use gnutls' in cups ports,
> until it can be made working, will change everybody life to be easier.

I can see why that might be appealing, but I'd be less than impressed
if I'd selected WITH_TLS and found the option silently ignored.
Perhaps the IGNORE message could be clarified...

Chris
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