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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multi-backend support for ssl/tls in curl
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:47:39
Message-Id: 1524498447.1791.0.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] multi-backend support for ssl/tls in curl by Gordon Pettey
1 W dniu pon, 23.04.2018 o godzinie 02∶57 -0500, użytkownik Gordon Pettey
2 napisał:
3 > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:26 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
4 > > W dniu nie, 22.04.2018 o godzinie 09∶34 -0500, użytkownik Matthew Thode
5 > > napisał:
6 > > > The short of it is that curl supports having multiple backends. I'd
7 > > > like to have that feature enabled so libraries and userland can choose
8 > > > the backend they wish to use.
9 > > >
10 > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/653076 has the specifics, but I cannot see a
11 > > > reason why we are artifically limiting the backed to just one.
12 > > >
13 > >
14 > > How would you solve the problem of packages requiring specific SSL
15 > > backend? Currently they enforce it via USE dependency on cURL.
16 >
17 > Perhaps with exactly the same USE dependencies that already exists,
18 > just without the at-most-one limitation on curl itself?
19 >
20
21 This doesn't guarantee that the required backend will actually be used.
22 Well, unless it blocks any other USE flag from being enabled but that
23 defeats the purpose.
24
25 --
26 Best regards,
27 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] multi-backend support for ssl/tls in curl James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>