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