Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH v2 1/1] libcamera: new package

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 09:50:41AM +0200, Marco Felsch wrote:
> On 22-09-14, Matthias Fend wrote:
> > Thanks for your input. I will also include the additional crypto options.
> > Is the reason for disabling module signing to reduce dependencies on the
> > target, or anything else?
> 
> Yes, it would reduce the dependencies if off. Also this gives the user
> the ability to select the crypto lib which is already used on the
> target. Since the worst case would be to pull a 2nd lib if one already
> have one.
> 
> Don't know if there is some option to select a global crypto provider.
> @Michael is this possible?

So, I like having a choice, because it allows minimizing the number of
crypto libraries. But these is not global default, because it's hard to
implement:
If it's just a default for a choice option, then it must be enabled before
all other packages: The default is is ignored if something is already
enabled. So changing the default has no effect either.

We could also hide the other options when a default is select. But that
means that there is no way to overwrite the default. And sometimes not all
backends have the same features.

Neither version is really desirable, so I never bothered to implement
anything like this.

Michael

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