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 wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Petteri Räty 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 t

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

2010-03-27 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Petteri Räty 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 case the ebuil

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 th

[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 wi