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I took a look at qemu-kvm and found something I percieve as funny: |
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It had a gnutls use-flag, but no ssl useflag. |
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As I see it is I want ssl/tls support it should be sufficient to enable |
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USE="ssl" and let the maintainer of said ebuild decide which |
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implementation (if more then one) I am better off with and only care |
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about the USE="gnutls openssl nss" if i really think the maintainer is |
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wrong. |
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For qemu-kvm the problem is that there is only one implementation (i.e. |
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gnutls), and if I want to have ssl support I have to enable gnutls for |
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this package. |
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When I wrote a bug about this I got a rather short reply from maintainer |
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about pointing me to the policy about this. |
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Now I know there was a disscussion a while back about this on the |
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mailinglist, but google fails me to find it, looking into the Gentoo |
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Development Guide [1] it fails me too. |
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There is not a _single_ word about how to handle if there is only one |
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implementation, but two use flags for this (one for the function |
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provided - ssl - and one for the actual implementation - gnutls). |
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So I have a question: |
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Is there no policy about this? |
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If there is could someone please point me towards it and also it in that |
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case may be time to update the gentoo development guide. |
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[1] |
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http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html#conflicting-use-flags |
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