Summary: | net-libs/glib-networking: Hard gnutls dependency | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Katherine Peeters <katherine.peeters> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
Status: | UNCONFIRMED --- | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | sam |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Katherine Peeters
2021-11-25 00:04:40 UTC
USE=ssl pulls in ca-certificates to ensure https stuff will actually work in practice. This could be important for cases where glib-networking ends up being used only in glib CLI apps or such, I suppose.
OpenSSL is highly discouraged by upstream at this point, it was recently introduced (and thus is still a bit experimental) with the option very clearly documented as:
> The OpenSSL backend is provided for systems where licensing considerations
> prohibit use of certain dependencies of GnuTLS. General-purpose Linux distros
> should leave it disabled. Please don't second-guess our defaults.
Up to this point I have had no reason to second-guess upstreams defaults.
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