On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> And I don't really see the point in the libressl USE flag in this >> case; I think that was only needed so the slot-operator would resolve >> correctly. >> > > Somebody else may be better informed, but I thought that there was a > concern with having both libressl and openssl linked into two > libraries that are in turn linked to by something else (causing a > symbol collision), and the USE flag was necessary to switch between > the two implementations since they aren't virtualized. > > If we've solved that problem in some other way then by all means say > so. However, I thought this was the main tradeoff in letting it use > the same soname.
This eclass doesn't build/link anything. It just calls /usr/bin/openssl.
