On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 23:31:39 +0000
"Robin H. Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > So apparently 14.2% of dependencies allow any slot of OpenSSL which is
> > most likely wrong, and 1.4% explicitly claim that's what the package
> > wants.  This could be valid only if e.g. the package supported multiple
> > ABIs of OpenSSL libraries and used dlopen() with a few possible SONAMEs
> > which I honestly doubt any of those packages is doing.  
>
> There's a valid case for accepting ANY openssl: tooling that explicitly
> calls the binary tools provided by OpenSSL, and does link or dlopen any
> of the openssl libraries.

The binary-only SLOTs don't include those tools because they would
conflict. Library-only is a more accurate term.

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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