base components should always be default (Re: change in default openssl coming)

[Guido Falsi]

On 07/09/16 14:36, Fernando Herrero Carrón wrote:
> El 9 jul. 2016 10:33 a. m., "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek at puchar.net> escribió:
>>
>>
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>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Mikhail T. wrote:
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>>> On 08.07.2016 02:26, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>>>>
>>>> During this summer (sometime in August I think) I will be changing the
> default OpenSSL for the ports tree from the base system version to
> security/openssl.
>>>
>>> The short answer is "Why?!" The longer reaction is: "please don't".
>>>
>> Why openssl is a part of base system at all?
>>
> 
> Maybe we can also ask: why is pkg not?

This has been answered various times. I can't speak for the maintainers
of pkg, but an answer to this question was already posted in this same
thread:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2016-July/103886.html

(second bullet in the list)

If you look in the mailing list archives you will find more replies on
the same tome.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>