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

[Fernando Herrero Carrón]

El 9 jul. 2016 3:13 p. m., "Guido Falsi" <mad at madpilot.net> escribió:
>
> 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:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Mikhail T. wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.

Oh, sorry, I just wrote at first thought without googling much. Thanks for
the pointers, though, I will have a look at them.

Best,
Fernando