Re: Bug#566351: libgcrypt11: should not change user id as a side effect

[Juan Lang]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> After gstreamer, gcrypt is also dropping support for alternative
> thread libraries.
> Good thing secur32/schannel_gnutls.c doesn't use it.  (Right?)

Right.

If someone were motivated, we could begin to transition winhttp and wininet
to schannel instead of  OpenSSL, and we could eliminate this dependency.
It's a lot to ask, but it seems, subjectively, like schannel has gotten
enough love to be workable for most sites by now.
--Juan