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On 10/28/15 7:30 AM, hasufell wrote: |
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> On 10/28/2015 12:23 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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>> A properly designed sub-USE flag would be useful here and clearly better |
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>> than our REQUIRED_USE. I think REQUIRED_USE is fine for heterogeneous |
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>> cases, but not when you have something like curl where you can either |
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>> turn ssl on or off. If it is off, nothing more needs to be specified, |
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>> if it is on, then you must further specify one and exactly one ssl |
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>> provider. |
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>> |
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> Uhm, curl makes use of REQUIRED_USE heavily, otherwise the use_expand |
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> would not work: |
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>> REQUIRED_USE=" |
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>> curl_ssl_winssl? ( elibc_Winnt ) |
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>> threads? ( !adns ) |
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>> ssl? ( |
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>> ^^ ( |
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>> curl_ssl_axtls |
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>> curl_ssl_gnutls |
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>> curl_ssl_libressl |
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>> curl_ssl_openssl |
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>> curl_ssl_nss |
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>> curl_ssl_polarssl |
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>> curl_ssl_winssl |
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>> ) |
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>> )" |
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> With the providers syntax from exherbo, this monster would basically be |
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> gone. |
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> |
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Yes, we're in agreement. I'm saying I'm *trying* to do what exherbo |
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does the best I can but really dont like REQUIRED_USE for this. |
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