On 13 December 2015 at 19:30, Alon Bar-Lev <alo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 13 December 2015 at 19:28, Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Le dimanche 13 décembre 2015 à 18:25 +0200, Alon Bar-Lev a écrit : >>> On 13 December 2015 at 18:20, Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > I was trying to cleanup my local USE flag settings and stumbled on >>> > the >>> > following three: smartcard, pcsc-lite and pkcs11. >>> > >>> > Knowing all 3 are related, I greped use.local.desc to see what each >>> > meant for different packages. To sum up what I found: >>> > * pcsc-lite is basically: enable smartcard support through >>> > <pkg>sys- >>> > apps/pcsc-lite</pkg> >>> > * pkcs11: enabled PKCS#11 (smartcard) via $pkg >>> > >>> > These look like the same thing to me so I propose we merge them all >>> > into USE=smartcard as this is the feature being enabled, not the >>> > lib or >>> > the standard being used to access the hardware if any. >>> >>> pcsc-lite and PKCS#11 interfaces are both related to smartcards but >>> different unrelated interfaces. I am unsure merging them will serve >>> the purpose for applications that are capable of supporting more than >>> one interface. >> >>> also, please notice that PKCS#11 is not all about smartcards, but an >>> interface to any cryptographic hardware. >> >> I agree with your points, my point is that it seems most of the time, >> both use flags are used in place of smartcard (or another name if this >> one does not fit in your opinion). >> >> According to local description, app-mobilephone/gnoki, net- >> libs/libosmocore and net-misc/rdesktop at least should be using >> USE=smartcard instead of USE=pcsc-lite > > rdesktop - I agree.
BTW: why don't you use net-misc/freerdp, works better to me and does have smartcard USE :) > I do not know the other packages.
