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Bug 876676 - app-editors/emacs[ssl]: should depend on net-libs/gnutls[tools]
Summary: app-editors/emacs[ssl]: should depend on net-libs/gnutls[tools]
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal major
Assignee: GNU Emacs project
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Reported: 2022-10-11 02:13 UTC by Josh
Modified: 2022-10-15 08:40 UTC (History)
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Description Josh 2022-10-11 02:13:28 UTC
net-libs/gnutls-3.7.7 is not built with the TOOLS flag by default. gnutls is a dependency of Emacs required for SSL, however SSL functionality like list-packages or connecting to IRC over TLS uses gnutls-cli which is not installed unless the TOOLS keyword is used. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Compile Emacs with gnutls standard use flags. 
Actual Results:  
TLS does not work

Expected Results:  
With the TOOLS use flag, TLS works.

TOOLS should be a default keyword.
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-10-15 00:31:59 UTC
I'm sorry, I don't think we want to do this. It'd drag guile into stage3 and impose guile on a number of systems which don't need it.

Reassigning to Emacs maintainers.
Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2022-10-15 08:40:00 UTC
It's an optional runtime dependency, so simply enable the flag if you want that functionality.

We could advertise it via optfeature.eclass. Then again, there are many more such optional runtime dependencies in Emacs, so I don't want to open that can of worms.