Re: [gentoo-dev] ssl vs openssl vs libressl vs gnutls USE flag foo

[Rich Freeman]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>>
>> The pain is for a short time.  Then we have to live with this for a
>> long time.  USE flags should have one meaning.  The fact that this
>> isn't the case right now is already a bug.  We don't need to
>> perpetuate it.
>
> No, the pain is neverending. You define a number of flags which are
> scattered all over the place and there's practically no good value but
> the 'default'.
>

My response was intended as a comparison of the two options presented,
which so far are the only options that have been suggested by anybody
that don't require EAPI changes.

I wasn't suggesting that there wasn't room for improvement in general.
However, short of banning libressl until EAPI7 and actually doing
something in EAPI7 this is our current best option.

-- 
Rich