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 with and only care about the USE="gnutls openssl nss" if i really think the maintainer is wrong. 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. When I wrote a bug about this I got a rather short reply from maintainer about pointing me to the policy about this. Now I know there was a disscussion a while back about this on the mailinglist, but google fails me to find it, looking into the Gentoo Development Guide [1] it fails me too. There is not a _single_ word about how to handle if there is only one implementation, but two use flags for this (one for the function provided - ssl - and one for the actual implementation - gnutls). So I have a question: Is there no policy about this? If there is could someone please point me towards it and also it in that case may be time to update the gentoo development guide. [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html#conflicting-use-flags
