Re: [gentoo-dev] when to use a function and an implementation use flag.

2010-03-28 Thread Doug Goldstein
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] when to use a function and an implementation use flag.

2010-03-28 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] when to use a function and an implementation use flag.

2010-03-27 Thread Petteri Räty
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

[gentoo-dev] when to use a function and an implementation use flag.

2010-03-24 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
I took a look at qemu-kvm and found something I percieve as funny: It had a gnutls use-flag, but no ssl useflag. As I see it is I want ssl/tls support it should be sufficient to enable USE=ssl and let the maintainer of said ebuild decide which implementation (if more then one) I am better off