Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ssl vs openssl vs libressl vs gnutls USE flag foo
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:24:23
Message-Id: 5630B057.1020308@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ssl vs openssl vs libressl vs gnutls USE flag foo by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 On 10/28/2015 12:20 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
2 > On 10/28/2015 07:23 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Agreed. If there's one choice then "ssl" should be used.
6 >> openssl/libressl/etc should really be considered sub-flags of ssl.
7 >
8 >
9 > If we are introducing a new and proper way to define this it might
10 > make sense to not refer to ssl (is anything actually using SSL these
11 > days? I certainly hope not), tls is the natural replacement unless we
12 > want to go for something more generic.
13 >
14
15 That's nitpick for no gain and will break more configurations than any
16 of the previously suggested formats.