at least add a warning for now as a minimum approach to warn that openssl::with_zlib=yes is just for developers who really want an OpenSSL with compression (for their own purposes)

openssl/openssl.spec

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Class:        CORE
 Group:        SSL
 License:      BSD-style
 Version:      0.9.8e
-Release:      20070720
+Release:      20070809
 
 #   package options
 %option       with_zlib     no
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ Release:      20070720
 %option       with_threads  no
 %option       with_pic      no
 
+#   package options sanity check
+%if "%{with_zlib}" == "yes"
+    %{warn: WARNING: enabling ZLib compression causes packages depending on OpenSSL to fail building! }
+%endif
+
 #   list of sources
 Source0:      ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/openssl-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch0:       openssl.patch