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Re: An option to choose beecrypt <-> NSS crypto?

From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse+rpm-devel@rpm5.org>
Date: Sun 30 Dec 2007 - 16:22:37 CET
Message-ID: <20071230152237.GA45436@engelschall.com>
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> Dunno whether there is any benefit other than debugging ease.
> If the crypto becomes selectable, the QA matrix becomes much
> more complicated for little perceived (imho) gain.
>
> But adding a popt option is trivial.

For debugging purposes feel free to add such an option (but make it a
hidden one under --help), but in general I would say we shouldn't allow
people to change the implementation too easily. Perhaps better is to
expand a configuration macro to select the implementation...

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com
Received on Sun Dec 30 16:24:43 2007
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