[asterisk-dev] SHA1 and MD5 code?

[Terry Wilson]

> I hate to have to break it to you, but if you're talking about
> optional dependencies you've utterly failed. The Fedora Asterisk
> package pulls in around ~50 packages explicitly, and who knows how
> many other packages implicitly. There's a lot of other functionality
> in Asterisk that isn't built for the Fedora package yet because it
> requires a library that isn't available in Fedora.

Most of those would not be required for a very basic install of Asterisk. Sure, if you want to install every optional module that was ever added, then there would be lots of dependencies. Asterisk wasn't really designed to be used that way, though. It is modular for a reason.

With that said, I wouldn't worry too much about an OpenSSL dependency. Well, I wouldn't other than for the fact that I've used OpenSSL before and it makes me want to claw my eyes out with a jalepeno-covered fork. Every time I dig through OpenSSL code trying to figure out how something work so I can use it, I think that things should certainly be much easier. Since we already use it, I suppose my OpenSSL-rage shouldn't really affect the decision that much.