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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: is new lib dependency possible for 3.5.2?
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-01-31 9:22:39
Message-ID: 200601311023.00728.thiago () kde ! org
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George Staikos wrote:
>> Afaik, OpenSSL is now dlopened. If kxbd/whatever did the same with
>> glib, I couldn't care less.
>
>  Yes it is.  And the nice thing is that it's only loaded on-demand, and
> can be easily removed at runtime.  It's very nasty work though.

And it all started because OpenSSL keeps on breaking binary compatibility 
and because of (SSLeay) licensing issues. If it had been a normal, 
well-behaving library from the start, we'd be linking to it, not loading 
it on-deman.

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