>>>>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, Gordon Pettey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> NACK. This seems to imply that USE="-ssl gnutls" is not a valid >> configuration? What if the user prefers gnutls and therefore has >> globally enabled the gnutls flag, but -ssl for a single package?
> Because having gnutls enabled and ssl disabled, if a package has > both flags, is nonsense? What is "I want gnutls but I don't want > support for SSL/TLS" supposed to do? The gnutls flag doesn't have the meaning "I want gnutls". It has the meaning "I prefer net-libs/gnutls as SSL/TLS provider". So with USE="-ssl" the gnutls flag is a no-op, and neither the ebuild nor the user should have to care about it. Ulrich
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