openssl vs. libressl

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Nov 10, 2015, at 5:12 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed. Still, the mod Jeremy introduced is the best/only way I know to allow choice that doesn't involve introducing an SSL PortGroup that provides +openssl and +libressl variants.

One other way to handle it would be how we tried to handle perl5 for a while (which doesn’t really work that well for perl, but may apply here).

We could have a port “mp-ssl-lib” that defaults to depending on one of the ssl libs (say openssl). It could also be installed as mp-ssl-lib +libressl which would modify it’s dependencies and install libressl and not openssl.

Other ports would all depend on ‘mp-ssl-lib’ and not directly only openssl or libressl.

It’s not a perfect solution, but may be nicer than adding +openssl/+libressl to every possible port.
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Daniel J. Luke                                                                   
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