The following reply was made to PR bin/31120; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: brian@surge.insomnia.org, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, zafer@gmx.org
Subject: Re: bin/31120 (update openssl in 3beta)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:22:07 -0400

 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