Bug 374673 – dev-libs/openssl: add a USE flag to depend on app-misc/ca-certificates

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bertrand Jacquin 2011-07-10 10:46:36 UTC]

Sometimes we don't need ca-certificates. For example when using openvpn (that depend on openssl), we don't care about any valid certificates.

That should be fine a add a default enable USE flag to depend on ca-certificate or not

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2011-07-11 02:32:38 UTC]

echo app-misc/ca-certificates >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided

[Comment 2 Bertrand Jacquin 2011-07-11 08:05:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> echo app-misc/ca-certificates >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided

That is what I did but controlling dependency with USE flags is more flexible and easier to find why the hell this package is not installed :)

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-07-11 13:23:28 UTC]

Such an USE flag would break various setups too, and knowing how some people can be, they will set it and we will get bug reports
I suggest sticking with package.provided for this :/

[Comment 4 Bertrand Jacquin 2011-07-11 14:11:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Such an USE flag would break various setups too, and knowing how some people
> can be, they will set it and we will get bug reports
> I suggest sticking with package.provided for this :/

I'm ok with that, closing it as invalid

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2011-07-11 15:38:58 UTC]

yeah, it's a crap shoot either way :/