Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> On 28 Jun 1999 21:05:34 -0400 
>  "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> 
>  > > Why on earth not just leave it as a package?
>  > 
>  > OpenSSL is probably the best set of crypto libraries around, and
>  > direct integration into our source tree is not an unreasonable
>  > idea. However, how it is done has to be carefully considered.
> 
> If it's the crypto libraries, then why not import them piecemeal?

To make it easier to deal with future imports -- just as we're doing
gnu/dist and reachovers for FSF software.

Perry