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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 18:32:24
Message-Id: 1428431518.2041.18.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 El lun, 06-04-2015 a las 23:31 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió:
2 > On 6 April 2015 at 23:07, Jason A. Donenfeld <zx2c4@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Packages that will compile against either one get "|| (openssl libressl)".
4 > > Packages that require a specific one will just have that one listed. Openssl
5 > > will block Libressl and vice versa.
6 >
7 > Doesn't work, you'd have to rebuild *all* the packages built with one
8 > or the other when switching, or (if the SONAME were the same) they
9 > would be built against a different ABI that they are built against,
10 > which can be possibly causing security issues as data structure size
11 > (and thus meaning of the content) changes.
12 >
13 > Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
14 > https://blog.flameeyes.eu/
15 >
16
17 Well, with the current approach for libav vs. ffmpeg (a USE flag for
18 choosing the preferred option) it wouldn't be a problem as people will
19 end up rebuilding the reverse deps when they switch to one or other
20 alternative :/