[artix-general] I had a suggestion or two,

mobinmob mobinmob at disroot.org
Sat Aug 1 10:55:10 CEST 2020


On 1/8/20 3:42 π.μ., zap via artix-general wrote:
> seeing as archlinux now has libressl in its regular package repository,
> would it be possible to have libressl as the default instead of openssl?
> Or make it so either one can be used for ssl functionality?
> I have heard great things about it being lighter and more secure.
>
> I also wondered if artix could possibly be run without dbus?
>
> Very few distros can do this aka...

Libressl ans openssl are not exactly interchangeable.

Alpine linux has reverted back to openssl [1] and voidlinux is 
considering a similar move [2].

AFAICT artix tries to stay close to arch and I do not think adopting a 
different default ssl library makes much sense.

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[1] 
https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/devel/%3C20181011171746.4c01f758%40ncopa-desktop.copa.dup.pw%3E
[2] https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935



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