Re: libressl

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> Is it that easy though? I would be surprised, as the process -
> maybe, most likely, also due to the incredible weird structures
> of portage policies and politics - to move the packages in Gentoo
> portage from openssl to handle openssl AND libressl as a one or
> the other selection option, turns out to take some time now and
> some packages (in gentoo) do depend on it in a way that they need
> to be patched to fully work or they have security concerns, for
> example in the case of tor (or was it bitcoin? or both?).
> 
> Tracking libressl on OpenBSD, Gentoo, and other bugtracker
> platforms should be something necessary to do and check before
> somebody goes ahead and fully replaces openssl with libressl
> here.

I'm just thinking of doing it locally as an experiment, to see what
breaks, etc.

> 
> I would be really glad to have a system with libressl, that's
> something I wanted for gentoo for some time now and I am still
> waiting for the whole meta KDE Plasma-5.5.5 and some other
> applications (I think 4 months ago it was ~30 I needed to wait
> for) to get libressl support. Could be changed now, as the
> general acceptance and the speed to get libressl into Gentoo
> portage packages picked up since, so maybe my warning is just
> based on me trying too much on Gentoo when it was still a side
> testing project, where it is now an official project.
> 
> 
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