On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Petteri Räty <betelge...@gentoo.org> 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="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. -- Doug Goldstein
