On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:47:27 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> W dniu pon, 23.04.2018 o godzinie 02∶57 -0500, użytkownik Gordon > Pettey napisał: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:26 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> > > wrote: > > > W dniu nie, 22.04.2018 o godzinie 09∶34 -0500, użytkownik Matthew > > > Thode napisał: > > > > The short of it is that curl supports having multiple > > > > backends. I'd like to have that feature enabled so libraries > > > > and userland can choose the backend they wish to use. > > > > > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/653076 has the specifics, but I cannot > > > > see a reason why we are artifically limiting the backed to just > > > > one. > > > > > > How would you solve the problem of packages requiring specific SSL > > > backend? Currently they enforce it via USE dependency on cURL. > > > > Perhaps with exactly the same USE dependencies that already exists, > > just without the at-most-one limitation on curl itself? > > This doesn't guarantee that the required backend will actually be > used. Well, unless it blocks any other USE flag from being enabled > but that defeats the purpose. Proprietary software that's linked against a specific backend usually links to libcurl-gnutls.so.4 or whatever specifically as that's what Debian provides. If it points to just libcurl.so.4 but only works against a specific backend then we could use chrpath to change it to the specific name. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
