Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 28 May 2013 15:22:04 -0400
"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I thought about ssl but I'm still not sure if USE=ssl means just openssl 
> or any ssl.  Eg, with curl, which has a choice of one of six backend ssl 
> providers, I changed USE=ssl to mean that one and only one of the six 
> must be on.  Previously though, USE=ssl in curl meant only openssl which 
> was confusing because you could also have USE=nss or gnutls etc provide 
> your ssl.  monkey also bounced around its ssl backend from liana_ssl to 
> polarssl which is what made me think of curl.  What if in the future 
> there's yet another ssl backend? Although use.desc does say ... "ssl - 
> Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections".  Any advice here?

Any SSL. If there are multiple backends to support, there are specific
flags which affect the choice but USE=ssl means any SSL is suitable.

> monkeyd is intended for embedded systems which is why it has switchable 
> plugins.  You can even choose whether or not to install the shared lib 
> and include files to really slim it down.

I can understand using USE flags to trim down plugins (assuming they're
large). But shared-lib is an overkill. If people want this degree of
scalability, it's either INSTALL_MASK or USE=minimal.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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