[viff-devel] Viff installation on Gentoo

[Marcel Keller]

Martin Geisler schrieb:
> Marcel Keller <mkeller at cs.au.dk> writes:
> 
>> As requested, here is the command to install the dependencies on Gentoo:
>>
>> $ emerge -av twisted gmpy
>>
>> Make sure to have the crypt use flag enabled, otherwise SSL might not
>> be available.
> 
> Thank you very much! I have included this in the online installation
> guide:
> 
>   http://viff.dk/doc/install.html#gnu-linux
> 
> The Debian instructions include pyOpenSSL too, should the Gentoo
> instructions not have that as well?

If the crypt use flag is enabled, pyOpenSSL is a dependency of twisted. 
One could also install pyOpenSSL directly (emerge pyopenssl), but that 
will be broken if twisted changes its SSL library. On the other hand, 
the use flag could also change.