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On 10/30/15 3:35 PM, hasufell wrote: |
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> On 10/30/2015 06:55 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> We have no way of saying 'I prefer polarssl, then gnutls, then |
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>> libressl, and never openssl'. |
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> I don't think this is something that can be reasonably supported and it |
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> sounds awfully automagic. And I don't see how this is possible right |
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> now, so I'm not really sure what you expect to get worse. |
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> E.g. -gnutls pulling in dev-libs/openssl is not really something you'd |
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> expect. If we go for provider USE flags, then things become consistent, |
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> explicit and unambiguous. The only problem is our crappy implementation |
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> of providers USE flags via REQUIRED_USE. |
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I'm not sure what mgorny has in mind, but the problem I see with saying |
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I want just X to be my provider system wide is that some pkgs build with |
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X others don't, other pkgs might need a different provider. So it might |
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make sense to order them in terms of preference: X1 > X2 > X3 ... and |
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then when emerging a package, the first provider in the preference list |
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that works is pulled in for that package. |
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