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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] hasufell's extended leave and libressl
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:13:58
Message-Id: 569AEAC6.1030304@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] hasufell's extended leave and libressl by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 1/16/16 8:03 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 1/16/16 7:54 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
3 >> On 01/16/2016 19:41, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
4 >>> Hi everyone,
5 >>>
6 >>> I emailed Julian earlier today and asked him to come back. He state in
7 >>> no uncertain terms that he does not intend on coming back.
8 >>>
9 >>> Julian and I were working on the libressl project together. He was
10 >>> doing the lion share and I contributed here and there for packages that
11 >>> I was interested in.
12 >>>
13 >>> I just don't have time to push that project through on my own. Mostly
14 >>> what needs to be done is the migration to the tree as described on the
15 >>> following page:
16 >>>
17 >>> https://github.com/gentoo/libressl/wiki/Transition-plan
18 >>>
19 >>> I'd like to solicit help in pushing this through. Any takers?
20 >>
21 >> Is the plan to just make packages in the tree compatible with libressl so that
22 >> users can choose either one, or to migrate off of openssl entirely?
23 >>
24 >
25 > The plan is basically this ...
26 >
27 > IUSE="libressl ssl"
28 >
29 > RDEPEND="
30 > ssl? (
31 > !libressl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0 )
32 > libressl? ( dev-libs/libressl )
33 > )
34 > "
35 >
36 > You choose either libressl or openssl and you build the entire tree with
37 > that.
38 >
39
40
41 Actually, if people take care of their own packages, that would really
42 speed things up.
43
44 --
45 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
46 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
47 E-Mail : blueness@g.o
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