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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: Correct/clarify SSL/TLS-related flags
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:53:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23153.37406.445528.171039@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHY5MeeDpAB6oMH-9CczG-xtnFgYPzd+XVHTqA4uB4fOFNQeCQ@mail.gmail.com>

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>>>>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, Gordon Pettey wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> NACK. This seems to imply that USE="-ssl gnutls" is not a valid
>> configuration? What if the user prefers gnutls and therefore has
>> globally enabled the gnutls flag, but -ssl for a single package?

> Because having gnutls enabled and ssl disabled, if a package has
> both flags, is nonsense? What is "I want gnutls but I don't want
> support for SSL/TLS" supposed to do?

The gnutls flag doesn't have the meaning "I want gnutls". It has
the meaning "I prefer net-libs/gnutls as SSL/TLS provider". So with
USE="-ssl" the gnutls flag is a no-op, and neither the ebuild nor
the user should have to care about it.

Ulrich

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-31  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-30 22:11 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: Correct/clarify SSL/TLS-related flags Michał Górny
2018-01-30 22:24 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-01-30 23:22 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-01-30 23:39   ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-01-30 23:42   ` Gordon Pettey
2018-01-31  9:53     ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2018-01-31 13:16     ` nado
2018-01-31 14:49 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2] " Michał Górny

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