As per summary, I think that the ssl flag is a good candidate for becoming a pkginternal default in python. My request stems principally from the following two observations: * IUSE defaults are useful for setting important 'out-of-the-box' per-package defaults that are useful to the vast majority of the gentoo userbase (whether the user is of the Joe 'duh-what's-a-profile?' Sixpack variety, or an experienced sysadmin of many years standing) * Recent versions of portage gripe about the lack of support for HTTPS connections in the event that python is built without ssl support: !!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name HTTPSConnection My rationale for making such a request is explained in much greater detail in bug 304887 (which is similar to this one but concerns another package).
It looks like a good idea. Fixed.
