using security/openssl in a port

Matthew Luckie mjl at luckie.org.nz
Fri Jan 5 04:17:47 UTC 2018


On 1/5/18 5:09 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On 05.01.2018 09:44, Matthew Luckie wrote:
> 
>> My main worry is that I could not find a single port that apparently
>> depends on security/openssl.  I'm worried that its more complicated than
>> simply declaring a dependency on security/openssl on particular freebsd
>> versions because other ports that use openssl might link against it
>> without registering a dependency.  Is my worry misplaced?
> 
> Why don't you read the Porter's Handbook? It has answers to all your questions:
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses-ssl.html

I already said that I considered USES = ssl and that it didn't seem to
address my concerns.  Can you please point me at a port that depends on
OpenSSL from ports using USES = ssl (or whatever this page of the
porters handbook is trying to tell me to do).

Thanks,

Matthew

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