SSL Certificates in base

[Mike Clarke]

On Wednesday, 24 February 2021 08:57:58 GMT Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> In the past, I've always installed security/ca_root_nss to let SSL work,
> as there were no CA certificates in base.
> 12.2 (and possibly older 12.x, I don't know) already provide several
> certificates in /usr/share/certs/trusted.
> 
> How are we expected to deal with this?
> Is security/ca_root_nss still needed/suggested?

Some packages still require it

curlew:/home/mike% pkg info -r ca_root_nss
ca_root_nss-3.61:
        curl-7.75.0
        fetchmail-6.4.14
        p11-kit-0.23.22
        qt5-network-5.15.2_1
        claws-mail-3.17.8
        gnome-keyring-3.36.0_1
        glib-networking-2.66.0
        neon-0.31.2
        qca-qt5-2.3.1_1
        gnutls-3.6.15
        vm-bhyve-1.4.2

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Mike Clarke