Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: Correct/clarify SSL/TLS-related flags

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, Gordon Pettey wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
>> NACK. This seems to imply that USE="-ssl gnutls" is not a valid
>> configuration? What if the user prefers gnutls and therefore has
>> globally enabled the gnutls flag, but -ssl for a single package?

> Because having gnutls enabled and ssl disabled, if a package has
> both flags, is nonsense? What is "I want gnutls but I don't want
> support for SSL/TLS" supposed to do?

The gnutls flag doesn't have the meaning "I want gnutls". It has
the meaning "I prefer net-libs/gnutls as SSL/TLS provider". So with
USE="-ssl" the gnutls flag is a no-op, and neither the ebuild nor
the user should have to care about it.

Ulrich