Re: Prefer pkgsrc OpenSSL after 2016Q1.

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:04:50 +0000
coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost wrote:

> Rather than unpacking OpenSSL at /usr, it will be unpacked at
> /usr/pkg, links will be made, and it will count as a package in
> the package database.

How will you prevent bind, postfix, racoon, wpa_supplicant, sshd and
others from breaking? Across two major release branches + current?

Syspkgs has to be all or nothing, you can't do it selectively with just
openssl. It implies moving from stable NetBSD release branches to
a rolling release. It is definitely not as trivial as flipping some
switch a cople of weeks from now.

I do encourage you to try, though. Syspkgs will happen once somebody
comes up with the correct engineering approach. So far nobody has
managed to come up with a convincing solution that people are happy
with.

-Tobias