[arch-dev-public] openssl 1.0 rebuild

[Thayer Williams]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> If you rebuild packages you should build bottom-up; means rebuild the deps
> of a package first. It's probably best to join our irc channel to
> communicate which packages you are about to rebuild. If something doesn't
> build you might find patches at
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/$pkgname
>
> And please avoid using versioned deps.

This is probably a stupid question, but...

How exactly do you know whether to use versioned deps?  For example, I
was going to rebuild mutt which currently requires openssl>=0.9.8e
from when Tobias maintained it.  Do I need to update the dep version
or will 0.9.8e still suffice?