NO_OPENSSL= true?

[Eric]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Eric <heli at mikestammer.com> writes:
> 
>> No bites on this yesterday. can anyone shed some light on it?
> 
> Most of us assume that one would only use non-standard security
> configurations if one *really* knew exactly what one was doing...
> 
>> is this something i should or shouldnt have in my make.conf?
>>
>> I use openssh-portable-4.4.p1 on my machines and cannot recall when
>> NO_OPENSSL= true was added to make.conf.
>>
>> is this something I should keep in my make.conf? what are the
>> implications if i keep it vs removing it?
> 
> Are you getting SSL from a port?  If not, you should remove it to get
> updates to the base system version.  [SSH uses SSL, but doesn't
> include its own version; it uses the base or ports version, as
> directed by some port makefile logic that I haven't looked through
> very carefully.]
> 

thanks for the reply. i have cleaned up the entry for it. again, i dont 
recall how it ever got there. I use openssh-portable, but everything 
else is from the base system. maybe it was an artifact from the 5.x days 
when I did run openssl from the ports tree.

Eric