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>>>>> On Mon, 04 Jan 2021, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Starting 2021-02-01, Gentoo will discontinue supporting |
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> dev-libs/libressl as an alternative to dev-libs/openssl. While it will |
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> [...] |
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> On 2021-02-01, we will mask the relevant USE flags and packages. If |
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> you |
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> necessary to use the user-maintained LibreSSL overlay [1]. As long- |
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> term |
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> development gained speed and the original reasons for the fork no |
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> [...] |
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> problems were related to packages using old/insecure OpenSSL APIs, |
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> today |
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> To the best of our knowledge, the only benefit LibreSSL has over |
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> OpenSSL |
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This has some strange line breaks now. Please fix. |
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Ulrich |
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