On Jun 7,  8:06pm, brian@surge.insomnia.org (brian@surge.insomnia.org) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/31120 (update openssl in 3beta)

| Has there been any thought to taking a hybrid type approach whereby netbsd 
| ships some version of openssl, ssh, what have you, but also fakes a pkg 
| install of it, and keeps the latest version in pkgsrc so it can be updated 
| should a customer so desire?

We do this for named and postfix too. The problem with openssl is that
it is a library and an application. Once you install the pkgsrc version
other pkgsrc applications will use the openssl version from pkgsrc, but
the base applications will still use the one from base.

christos