The EAP-TLS patch does not depend on curl anymore. # grep -i curl patch/80_all_eaptls-mppe-0.991-gentoo.patch # The patch attached to bug #109935 says: ++ You must also have libcurl installed (used to fetch CRLs). ++ The version required is 7.9.8 or newer (because that's the one I used, ++ but an earlier version may work). No such requirement anymore at: http://www.nikhef.nl/~janjust/ppp/README.eap-tls
This is fixed in =net-dialup/ppp-2.4.7-r6