>I understand, but we _are_ talking about pkgsrc here, no?  Given that we
>turn on md5 passwords without verifying what this does on other
>platforms pkgsrc supports (does Solaris support them?  Darwin?), I'm not
>sure that this is a good reason...

	turning on MD5 password support by --with-md5-passwords does not have
	negative portability impact, as it uses functions in openssl.
	it won't hurt.

itojun