Jon Nelson writes:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
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What exactly is so confusing about this concept:
ÃÂÂ If you don't want SSL, don't install either OpenSSL runtime, or OpenSSL
development files.
ÃÂÂ If you want SSL, install OpenSSL runtime and OpenSSL development files.
Quite simply, one may want OpenSSL for, say, ssh, but *not* want an
SSL-enabled imapd. Linux is partly about choice, and making a decision
based upon the presence or absence of build- and run-time support,
without providing a way to turn the feature off *regardless* of the
presense of absence of such support takes away user's choices. People
like to have choice.
Let me ask this: how hard would it be to make courier's ./configure
accept a --without-ssl switch? Probably not very hard. Would you
accept a patch to courier that adds said option? (I am not volunteering
to code it, although I probably could, I am just asking.)
I'd rather improve the configure script so that it does a better job of
detecting whether to compile SSL support.
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