Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] name of smartcard support USE flag

[Alon Bar-Lev]

On 13 December 2015 at 19:30, Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@g.o> wrote:
> On 13 December 2015 at 19:28, Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:
>> Le dimanche 13 décembre 2015 à 18:25 +0200, Alon Bar-Lev a écrit :
>>> On 13 December 2015 at 18:20, Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I was trying to cleanup my local USE flag settings and stumbled on
>>> > the
>>> > following three: smartcard, pcsc-lite and pkcs11.
>>> >
>>> > Knowing all 3 are related, I greped use.local.desc to see what each
>>> > meant for different packages. To sum up what I found:
>>> >  * pcsc-lite is basically: enable smartcard support through
>>> > <pkg>sys-
>>> > apps/pcsc-lite</pkg>
>>> >  * pkcs11: enabled PKCS#11 (smartcard) via $pkg
>>> >
>>> > These look like the same thing to me so I propose we merge them all
>>> > into USE=smartcard as this is the feature being enabled, not the
>>> > lib or
>>> > the standard being used to access the hardware if any.
>>>
>>> pcsc-lite and PKCS#11 interfaces are both related to smartcards but
>>> different unrelated interfaces. I am unsure merging them will serve
>>> the purpose for applications that are capable of supporting more than
>>> one interface.
>>
>>> also, please notice that PKCS#11 is not all about smartcards, but an
>>> interface to any cryptographic hardware.
>>
>> I agree with your points, my point is that it seems most of the time,
>> both use flags are used in place of smartcard (or another name if this
>> one does not fit in your opinion).
>>
>> According to local description, app-mobilephone/gnoki, net-
>> libs/libosmocore and net-misc/rdesktop at least should be using
>> USE=smartcard instead of USE=pcsc-lite
>
> rdesktop - I agree.

BTW: why don't you use net-misc/freerdp, works better to me and does
have smartcard USE :)

> I do not know the other packages.