Is SSL really a dependant of everything?

[Dave Horsfall]

So this morning I do my weekly "port selfupdate" and "port upgrade -p 
outdated" (I use "-p" to make it keep going with the rest of the ports, 
come hell or high water), and after updating SSL it's now rebuilding what 
appears to be the rest of the world (cmake, llvm, clang, assorted other 
ports etc).

What on earth happened?  Early MacBook Pro (Sierra), 460GB SSD, 4GB mem, 
and it's still going hammer and tongs!

-- Dave