On Tuesday 15 December 2009 03:05:33 Peter Volkov wrote: > Hi. How do we choose USE flags in case package supports different ssl > implementations? > > Currently we do this differently: 1. some packages use ssl USE flag and > additional gnutls (or openssl) to select alternative ssl implementation, > 2. other packages already started to avoid ssl USE flag completely and > use only openssl/gnutls/nss. > > The latter makes things harder for those who want ssl enabled packages > on the system and don't care about implementation. Also it is not > intuitive to have packages without ssl with ssl USE flag enabled system > wide. So I would like to ban latter solution and suggest the following: > > > If package has ssl support use ssl USE flag for that. In case there are > alternatives, use openssl/gnutls/nss for upstream _less_ recommended > implementation(s).
USE=ssl should select *some* implementation. the finer grained openssl/gnutls/nss can be used to select a specific implementation, but not respecting USE=ssl is broken. curl is an example of this. -mike
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