On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Darren Pilgrim <list_free...@bluerosetech.com> wrote: > On 2013-04-08 10:22, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: >> >> Yep, OpenSSH is tiny enought to keep it in base system. It would be a >> big loss not to have it by default, securely installed in the base >> system. > > > I really wish it wasn't. Having OpenSSH (and thus OpenSSL) in the base > means FreeBSD has an outdated version installed by default. You have to > install openssl from ports in order to have modern cipher support, TLS > v1.1/1.2, DTLS, etc. This puts two sets of openssl libs on the system and > creates recurrent headaches with builds where the autoconfiguration selects > the wrong set of libs. > > I guess it would be possible to rename it to something autoconf misses, so ports have to use the ports-version? It enforces some redundancy, though I won't speculate on how much disk space it works out to.
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