Bug 374673

Summary:	dev-libs/openssl: add a USE flag to depend on app-misc/ca-certificates
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Bertrand Jacquin <bertrand>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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 gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

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 gentoo-dev

2011-07-11 15:38:58 UTC

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