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From: nado@troglodyte.be
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: Correct/clarify SSL/TLS-related flags
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:16:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f789112c33ba5328f48dbe71d25b7356@troglodyte.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23153.37406.445528.171039@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>

January 31, 2018 10:53 AM, "Ulrich Mueller" <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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

I agree, it is bothersome to have to add extra negative use flags when it could be ignored.

--
Corentin “Nado” Pazdera


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-31 13:16 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
2018-01-31 13:16     ` nado [this message]
2018-01-31 14:49 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2] " Michał Górny

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