New comment by ericonr on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/29074#issuecomment-853507830 Comment: I don't want to involve myself, but from https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/OpenSSL-HOWTO.txt it would seem at least openssl is used to provide crypto stuff and it would have to be compiled specially for that, which is why they pull it in.