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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Creating a USE_EXPAND for ssl providers
From:       hasufell <hasufell () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2014-05-31 1:08:56
Message-ID: 53892BA8.9070300 () gentoo ! org
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Peter Stuge:
> Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
>> If a user has i.e. SSL="polarssl" in make.conf and emerges things that
>> don't have polarssl on their list, then those things won't have SSL
>> support at all, right?
> 
> Wrong; I would expect emerge to throw an error at me and exit, rather
> than to fail (build the package without respecting my SSL choice)
> silently.
> 
> 
>> what's the difference in using the SSL use expand here, or just
>> having packages directly IUSE="+ssl gnutls +openssl nss polarssl"
> 
> The way I see it, the difference is that USE=ssl goes away, and
> that setting SSL could then imply +ssl, and SSL=foossl would
> correctly fail to build any IUSE=barssl package.
> 
> 
> //Peter
> 

On a note: polarssl support is still missing from a lot of packages, so
if you really do set it as your ssl provider, you WILL have to
micro-manage stuff.

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