Checksum libraries

[Rainer Müller]

On 04/15/2011 11:29 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>> Since some people want to run MacPorts mirrors on Linux,
>>> I re-added the support for using libcrypto for checksums.
>>
>> Thanks! I like increased platform-independence. :)
> 
> Make no mistake, MacPorts is still highly platform-dependent,
> both by choice and by accident. There was a (partial) effort
> to have MacPorts 1.6.0 be portable and run on multiple platforms,
> including FreeBSD, and even Fedora (Linux) and Ubuntu (Linux)...

Actually some of the mirror administrators run MacPorts on Linux to
fetch distfiles from all available sources.

Rainer