[viff-devel] Viff installation on Gentoo

[Martin Geisler]

Marcel Keller <mkeller at cs.au.dk> writes:

> 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.

Ah, nice! I didn't expect this :-)

> 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.

>From what you say the current instructions seem the best. Thanks for
the help.

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Martin Geisler