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On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 14:39 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: |
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> 2. Install them into different prefixes (eg /usr/lib/openssl + |
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> /usr/lib/libressl and have the linker link to a specific version, |
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> /usr/include/{openssl,libressl} too). |
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For the record, this is something I've been wondering about for a long |
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time. However, there are two problems with that: a small one |
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and a huge one. |
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The small problem is that this requires a lot of additional downstream |
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work. I mean, you have to explicitly support the choice in ebuilds, |
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and this means making things even harder for newcomers. |
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The big problem is that (unless I'm mistaken) we won't be able to load |
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LibreSSL and OpenSSL to the same executable. So we'd actually have to |
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enforce that the whole link chain links to the same SSL provider, |
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and effectively land pretty close to where we are now. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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