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From: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, libressl@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Recap: Discontinuing LibreSSL support?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 08:35:10
Message-Id: f5413d9e4706007699a436b735f8a650ff587c78.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Recap: Discontinuing LibreSSL support? by Peter Stuge
1 On Thu, 2020-12-31 at 02:50 +0000, Peter Stuge wrote:
2 > Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > > > I think the three main ways forward from here would be to
4 > > > > either:
5 > > > >
6 > > > > 1. Keep LibreSSL for indefinite time (possibly masked)
7 > > > > 2. Eventually move LibreSSL to libressl overlay.
8 > > > > 3. Eventually remove LibreSSL.
9 > > >
10 > > > 4. A libressl or libressl-libtls ebuild installs only libtls.
11 > >
12 > > dev-libs/libretls already does that.
13 >
14 > dev-libs/libretls doesn't install a libressl libtls.
15 >
16 > This thread is obviously about how the libressl implementation remains
17 > in use.
18 >
19 > It's clear now that you want to hinder that in Gentoo at any cost to
20 > the community, but that's not useful, so please take a step back
21 > unless
22 > you are actually going to be constructive.
23 >
24 > My proposition 4. (which I suggested already earlier - you shouldn't
25 > have ignored it) is obviously not about having any libtls provider in
26 > the tree, but to model reality accurately and ensure that libretls is
27 > the primary and prefered libtls provider, since it is literally the
28 > libtls upstream.
29 >
30 > It is important to me that you can choose dev-libs/libretls instead of
31 > having any libretls code on your systems, but I reject you forcing
32 > that
33 > choice of yours on everyone else.
34 >
35 >
36 > //Peter
37 >
38
39 Patches welcome.