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doc: mention using --with-openssl
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Fixes #225
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rsmarples committed Oct 4, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -150,6 +150,14 @@ You can disable this with `--without-dev`, or `without-udev`.
NOTE: in Gentoo at least, `sys-fs/udev` as provided by systemd leaks memory
`sys-fs/eudev`, the fork of udev does not and as such is recommended.

## crypto
dhcpcd ships with some cryptographic routines taken from various upstreams.
These are routinely monitored and try to be as up to date as possible.
You can optionally configure dhcpcd with `--with-openssl` to use libcrypto
to use these instead.
This is not enabled by default, even if libcrypto is found because libcrypto
generally lives in /usr and dhcpcd in /sbin which could be a separate
filesystem.

## Importing into another source control system
To import the full sources, use the import target.
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