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Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 22:18 +0200, Michał Górny a écrit : |
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> On Tue, 28 May 2013 15:22:04 -0400 |
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> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I thought about ssl but I'm still not sure if USE=ssl means just openssl |
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> > or any ssl. Eg, with curl, which has a choice of one of six backend ssl |
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> > providers, I changed USE=ssl to mean that one and only one of the six |
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> > must be on. Previously though, USE=ssl in curl meant only openssl which |
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> > was confusing because you could also have USE=nss or gnutls etc provide |
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> > your ssl. monkey also bounced around its ssl backend from liana_ssl to |
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> > polarssl which is what made me think of curl. What if in the future |
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> > there's yet another ssl backend? Although use.desc does say ... "ssl - |
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> > Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections". Any advice here? |
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> Any SSL. If there are multiple backends to support, there are specific |
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> flags which affect the choice but USE=ssl means any SSL is suitable. |
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Already explained multiple times on this mailing list, and not only for |
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ssl. Imho this should be part of some QA policy or documentation about |
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writing ebuilds or whatever and not just for ssl. |
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In any case, I wrote this down for the Gnome team at Gentoo wiki [1]. |
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[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gnome_Team_Policies#ssl |
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Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> |
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