[OE-core] [PATCH 3/5] nss: add version 3.15.1

Phil Blundell pb at pbcl.net
Thu Jul 11 10:45:30 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 11:41 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 11 July 2013 11:40, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> > On 10 July 2013 09:03, Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com> wrote:
> >> Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support
> >> cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications.
> >> Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS 5, PKCS 7,
> >> PKCS 11, PKCS 12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards.
> >
> > What's the rationale for putting this into oe-core instead of updating
> > the recipe in meta-browser?
> 
> Of course if I actually read the other mails I'd see it was for LSB.

I think you could still legitimately question whether having recipes in
oe-core that are "just for LSB" is sensible and/or desirable, not least
because dangling libraries that don't have any users are hard to test.

p.





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