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. I do not know the other packages.
