On Monday 22 October 2007 09:47:12 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Nevertheless, I don't think you're going to get rid of the
competing SSL
libraries. Rewriting code to use a different API is a lot of make-work
that no one wants to do, and doesn't contribute much benefit to anyone.
This is true and not the aim of the crypto consolidation project. What we are
aiming to do is create a --with-nss option for as many packages as feasible
and then Fedora can use that in package building. We have also created an
openssl compatible API to help ease the transition.
-Steve