[OE-core] [Consolidated Pull 13/17] curl: enable ssl support

[Phil Blundell]

On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 13:10 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 06/14/2012 12:58 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 20:54 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 12:27 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> >>> +DEPENDS = "zlib gnutls openssl"
> >>
> >> Do you really want both gnutls and openssl simultaneously?  That seems a
> >> bit excessive.  What exactly is openssl bringing here that gnutls
> >> doesn't do?
> >
> > Also, if you really do want this, it ought to be a DISTRO_FEATURE and/or
> > PKG_CONFIG option.  Aside from the issue of binary bloat, OpenSSL brings
> > a pile of licensing grief that a lot of folks may not want.
> >
> Ah, I tried to figure out why openssl was not in the first place, now I 
> understand better.  How's this as a comprise, go back to pure gnutls for 
> the target, but have the native only use openssl to allow secure git 
> fetches, which is what triggered this in the first place.

That sounds like a decent plan.  In the longer term I think there would
be some mileage in a generic DISTRO_FEATURES setting to allow one to
select between gnutls and openssl (or yassl, nss, ...) in a global kind
of way, and then curl should be made to respect it.

p.