Peter Stuge: > Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> If a user has i.e. SSL="polarssl" in make.conf and emerges things that >> don't have polarssl on their list, then those things won't have SSL >> support at all, right? > > Wrong; I would expect emerge to throw an error at me and exit, rather > than to fail (build the package without respecting my SSL choice) > silently. > > >> what's the difference in using the SSL use expand here, or just >> having packages directly IUSE="+ssl gnutls +openssl nss polarssl" > > The way I see it, the difference is that USE=ssl goes away, and > that setting SSL could then imply +ssl, and SSL=foossl would > correctly fail to build any IUSE=barssl package. > > > //Peter >
On a note: polarssl support is still missing from a lot of packages, so if you really do set it as your ssl provider, you WILL have to micro-manage stuff.
