On Mon, 1 Jun 2015, Roger Marquis wrote: > Kimmo Paasiala: > > Rumour is that something like that is going to happen with all of the > > problematic libraries by making them private. If someone with inside > > knowledge could confirm these rumours? ;) > > Curious why this is a rumor? Open source operating systems should be > developed transparently, shouldn't they?
I have no concrete data, but something might live as only a rumor if someone is considering making the change and analyzing how much work it would be, before they have any proposal to make or patches for review. > > This leads to another question. Where is the line going to be drawn > > which libraries in the base system should be private? There are > > certainly some of them that have to be public like libc and the > > support libraries like libusb. There is certainly no sense in making > > the ports system use full set of its own libraries for everything > > either. > > I'd be happy just to to 'make buildworld -DWITHOUT_OPENSSL'. Better to set WITHOUT_SSL=yes in /etc/src.conf (see src.conf(5)). -Ben _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
