Upgrading Base System openssl

[Tom Uffner]

One of my clients needs to upgrade OpenSSL on their FreeBSD 8.3
systems to the latest version. This is easily accomplished using
the port. However:

They do not want a 2nd installation of OponSSL under /usr/local,
they want to totally replace the existing base system version.

There are some ports such as mail/sendmail that work that way, and
others such as security/openssh-portable that have a config option
[OVERWRITE_BASE] for this purpose.

Is there a reason why the OpenSSL port does not have the ability
to replace the base system version? is there an obvious way to do
this that i am missing?

and finally, if i were to submit patches adding an OVERWRITE_BASE
option to the port, would someone be willing to commit them?

thanks,

tom