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From: Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multi-backend support for ssl/tls in curl
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 07:58:40
Message-Id: CAHY5MedAy3FzhLQMq++X-M6wLuVExx0JdnEHyzDDBD+xUgQXCQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] multi-backend support for ssl/tls in curl by "Michał Górny"
1 On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:26 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > W dniu nie, 22.04.2018 o godzinie 09∶34 -0500, użytkownik Matthew Thode
3 > napisał:
4 >> The short of it is that curl supports having multiple backends. I'd
5 >> like to have that feature enabled so libraries and userland can choose
6 >> the backend they wish to use.
7 >>
8 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/653076 has the specifics, but I cannot see a
9 >> reason why we are artifically limiting the backed to just one.
10 >>
11 >
12 > How would you solve the problem of packages requiring specific SSL
13 > backend? Currently they enforce it via USE dependency on cURL.
14
15 Perhaps with exactly the same USE dependencies that already exists,
16 just without the at-most-one limitation on curl itself?

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] multi-backend support for ssl/tls in curl Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] multi-backend support for ssl/tls in curl "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>