On 10/28/2015 09:36 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 03:06:59 +0100 > hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> A is not that difficult. Most uses of 'openssl' can just be replaced >> with 'ssl', others probably with '!gnutls?' even. A few exotic ones >> might stay and we will have to advice users to set USE="openssl >> libressl" instead of USE="-openssl libressl". >> B will definitely be more work, but ofc is also a lot cleaner and >> totally unambigous. > > > You haven't taken into consideration the licence incompatibilities: > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#OpenSSL > it gets really messy for libraries: a gpl binary linking against a > library linking against openssl means the binary can be > redistributed, but not with such a library linked against openssl... > > the point of the 'openssl' useflag is to have something that is not > enabled by default and that can be used in RESTRICT="openssl? > ( bindist )" expressions... >
You can just do RESTRICT="ssl? ( bindist )" and disable bindist by default or vote for solution B.
