On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM Bernard Spil <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can find no instances of `USES= ssl=openssl*` and see no port with a > _DEPENDS on freshports.org... > What am I missing?
Ports generally aren't allowed to choose what type of openssl it wants to depend on. Thus, USES=openssl has no args as you can see in the documentational comment at the top of Mk/Uses/ssl.mk Instead, users may set DEFAULT_VERSIONS=ssl=openssl to make all ports depend on security/openssl rather than the base one. So an exp-run would mean building all ports that have USES=ssl with different values for DEFAULT_VERSIONS.
