On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 13:10 -0700, Saul Wold wrote: > On 06/14/2012 12:58 PM, Phil Blundell wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 20:54 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: > >> On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 12:27 -0700, Saul Wold wrote: > >>> +DEPENDS = "zlib gnutls openssl" > >> > >> Do you really want both gnutls and openssl simultaneously? That seems a > >> bit excessive. What exactly is openssl bringing here that gnutls > >> doesn't do? > > > > Also, if you really do want this, it ought to be a DISTRO_FEATURE and/or > > PKG_CONFIG option. Aside from the issue of binary bloat, OpenSSL brings > > a pile of licensing grief that a lot of folks may not want. > > > Ah, I tried to figure out why openssl was not in the first place, now I > understand better. How's this as a comprise, go back to pure gnutls for > the target, but have the native only use openssl to allow secure git > fetches, which is what triggered this in the first place.
That sounds like a decent plan. In the longer term I think there would be some mileage in a generic DISTRO_FEATURES setting to allow one to select between gnutls and openssl (or yassl, nss, ...) in a global kind of way, and then curl should be made to respect it. p. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
