Re: OpenSSL vs. GnuTLS in Exim

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Marc Haber:

> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 01:37:24PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Marc Haber:
>> 
>> >> Is there any advantage of GnuTLS over OpenSSL ?
>> >
>> > GnuTLS' License fits better in Debian's freeness concept.
>> 
>> Exim still links to OpenSSL, so I don't see how this can matter.
>
> exim links to OpenSSL by virtue of the MySQL and/or PostgresSQL
> packages, IIRC. Which is not something we as exim maintainers can
> control.

Sure you can, just don't link against those libraries.

I'm beginning to wonder if we've got the resources to make GnuTLS
suitable for use in short-running processes, that's all.