Re: git: ae001a7a25a6 - main - Mk/Uses: Remove certs.mk

In reply to: Yuri Victorovich : "git: ae001a7a25a6 - main - Mk/Uses: Remove certs.mk"
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From: Mathieu Arnold <mat_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:56:51 UTC

On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 02:03:02AM +0000, Yuri Victorovich wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by yuri:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=ae001a7a25a6b245575c5138a7f085fa9917da30
> 
> commit ae001a7a25a6b245575c5138a7f085fa9917da30
> Author:     Yuri Victorovich <yuri@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2026-03-10 01:56:54 +0000
> Commit:     Yuri Victorovich <yuri@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2026-03-10 01:56:54 +0000
> 
>     Mk/Uses: Remove certs.mk
>     
>     It was a useful shorthand for the security/ca_root_nss dependency.
>     However, several people disagreed.
>     
>     Can anybody explain why libedit.mk is there? It is also a one string
>     substitution. Same with libarchive.mk.

Well, both also add USES=localbase, I think it is so that the ports pick
up the ports version of those libraries and not the base system version.

But both of those are libraries, security/ca_root_nss is just text
files, it does not get linked up into binaries.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold