an additional requirement on kdelibs

[Thiago Macieira]

George Staikos wrote:
>   Then we really need to drop that dependency.  Linking in OpenSSL  
>for that is just not reasonable.  As Stephan pointed out, there are  
>many copies of sha1 available for you as an alternative to the Qt one  
>if you don't want to use that.

George doesn't say it, but there are two more reasons for not linking 
directly to OpenSSL:

1) it often breaks binary compatibility (OpenSSL developers haven't 
learned the trick of increasing the soname version number yet)
2) I think it still carries SSLeay licensed code

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