Subject: bug#27618: Possible bug when compiled with ssl

From: Jean Louis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 10:05:47 +0300

On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 04:20:59PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Jean Louis wrote:
> > Why sort need to have ssl with that option?
> 
> It probably doesn't.

Maybe that is to be changed. Those small coreutils tools that do not
depend of SSL maybe they shall not be linked with the SSL library.

Systems are evolving, coreutils are used to build new systems.

And why is SSL library useful in coreutils? What it does special? Does
it replaces md5 and other hash functions?

Jean