using security/openssl in a port

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Fri Jan 5 04:09:35 UTC 2018


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




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