Why ports are allowed to be linked with base OpenSSL?

[Mel Pilgrim]

On 10/15/2017 11:41, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 06:15:24PM +0000, Yuri wrote:
>> Uses/ssl.mk allows SSL_DEFAULT=base. I know this has been discussed here
>> before, but why is this even allowed? If some ports are built with
>> SSL_DEFAULT=base, and some with SSL_DEFAULT=openssl, this will obviously
>> cause conflicts when two incompatible openssl libraries will be mapped into
>> the same process.
>>
>>
>> Isn't it better to only allow port OpenSSL for ports, and disallow base
>> OpenSSL in ports, so that there will be homogeneity of openssl?
>>
> 
> First the default SSL is supposed to be for the entire ports tree, not only for
> a bunch of ports.
> 
> Second, yes that is the plan but it takes time and it is not that easy to make
> it happen :)

What are the current roadblocks to setting SSL_DEFAULT=openssl in 
ssl.mk? Is there a list of ports that don't compile with the ports openssl?