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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ssl vs openssl vs libressl vs gnutls USE flag foo
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:35:57
Message-Id: 5633C686.7070105@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ssl vs openssl vs libressl vs gnutls USE flag foo by "Michał Górny"
1 On 10/30/2015 06:55 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 >
3 > We have no way of saying 'I prefer polarssl, then gnutls, then
4 > libressl, and never openssl'.
5
6 I don't think this is something that can be reasonably supported and it
7 sounds awfully automagic. And I don't see how this is possible right
8 now, so I'm not really sure what you expect to get worse.
9
10 E.g. -gnutls pulling in dev-libs/openssl is not really something you'd
11 expect. If we go for provider USE flags, then things become consistent,
12 explicit and unambiguous. The only problem is our crappy implementation
13 of providers USE flags via REQUIRED_USE.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ssl vs openssl vs libressl vs gnutls USE flag foo "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>