On 1/16/16 8:03 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> On 1/16/16 7:54 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
>> On 01/16/2016 19:41, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I emailed Julian earlier today and asked him to come back.  He state in
>>> no uncertain terms that he does not intend on coming back.
>>>
>>> Julian and I were working on the libressl project together.  He was
>>> doing the lion share and I contributed here and there for packages that
>>> I was interested in.
>>>
>>> I just don't have time to push that project through on my own.  Mostly
>>> what needs to be done is the migration to the tree as described on the
>>> following page:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/gentoo/libressl/wiki/Transition-plan
>>>
>>> I'd like to solicit help in pushing this through.  Any takers?
>>
>> Is the plan to just make packages in the tree compatible with libressl so 
>> that
>> users can choose either one, or to migrate off of openssl entirely?
>>
> 
> The plan is basically this ...
> 
> IUSE="libressl ssl"
> 
> RDEPEND="
>     ssl? (
>         !libressl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0 )
>         libressl? ( dev-libs/libressl )
>     )
> "
> 
> You choose either libressl or openssl and you build the entire tree with
> that.
> 


Actually, if people take care of their own packages, that would really
speed things up.

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