Re: [gentoo-dev] multi-backend support for ssl/tls in curl

[Matthew Thode]

On 18-04-23 02:57:50, Gordon Pettey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:26 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> > W dniu nie, 22.04.2018 o godzinie 09∶34 -0500, użytkownik Matthew Thode
> > napisał:
> >> The short of it is that curl supports having multiple backends.  I'd
> >> like to have that feature enabled so libraries and userland can choose
> >> the backend they wish to use.
> >>
> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/653076 has the specifics, but I cannot see a
> >> reason why we are artifically limiting the backed to just one.
> >>
> >
> > How would you solve the problem of packages requiring specific SSL
> > backend?  Currently they enforce it via USE dependency on cURL.
>
> Perhaps with exactly the same USE dependencies that already exists,
> just without the at-most-one limitation on curl itself?
>

Yep, as described in the bug, there if a program requires use of a
specific backend it's able to request it.

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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)