From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NvleM-0006kJ-0v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:07:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0011EE0860; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f204.google.com (mail-pz0-f204.google.com [209.85.222.204]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C76E0858 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk42 with SMTP id 42so2430367pzk.32 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: cardoe@cardoe.com Received: by 10.143.37.2 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:06:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BAE19DE.70206@gentoo.org> References: <1269455454.31227.12.camel@lillen> <4BAE19DE.70206@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:06:41 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: e852e80c35823cc2 Received: by 10.142.207.20 with SMTP id e20mr1322715wfg.122.1269756401814; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] when to use a function and an implementation use flag. From: Doug Goldstein To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: add1ca81-fe26-467f-96f8-f6748549ab74 X-Archives-Hash: bb0e6826f91e4d53ebb2c8a800e0e828 On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Petteri R=C3=A4ty = wrote: > On 03/24/2010 08:30 PM, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > >> For qemu-kvm the problem is that there is only one implementation (i.e. >> gnutls), and if I want to have ssl support I have to enable gnutls for >> this package. > > In this case the ebuild should have only ssl use flag. > >> When I wrote a bug about this I got a rather short reply from maintainer >> about pointing me to the policy about this. > > Where did he point you to? I didn't point him anywhere. I merely asked him for a policy on this. Because senseless changes in USE flags will require my 9 VM servers will need to be tweaked around for a pointless USE flag change and I don't need administrative burden for the sake of administrative burden. > >> So I have a question: >> Is there no policy about this? > > The policy is that USE=3D"ssl" controls whether to enable ssl support in > general. Then the specific use flags like gnutls and openssl control > what implementation to use if the package supports multiple. Again, this policy is stated but no one can point me to anything. The closest thing to a "policy" is you sending a follow up e-mail to the dev list to make this a policy. --=20 Doug Goldstein