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Install this package:

emerge -a dev-libs/libassuan

If the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:

autounmask dev-libs/libassuan

Or alternatively:

emerge --autounmask-write -a dev-libs/libassuan

Package Information

Description:

In an ideal world, Assuan is irrelevant. Assuan's primary use is to allow a client to interact with a non-persistent server. Using Assuan, this is accomplished by forking a subprocess and communicating with it via, for example, a pipe or unix domain socket. This method is neither elegant nor efficient especially when there is a lot of data spread across several transactions: not only is there a penalty for an increased number of context switches, but also a significant amount of data is MEMCPYed from the client to a file descriptor and from the file descriptor to the server.

Homepage:

https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/libassuan/index.en.html

License:

GPL-3 LGPL-2.1

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Metadata

Description

• In an ideal world, Assuan is irrelevant. Assuan's primary use is to allow a client to interact with a non-persistent server. Using Assuan, this is accomplished by forking a subprocess and communicating with it via, for example, a pipe or unix domain socket. This method is neither elegant nor efficient especially when there is a lot of data spread across several transactions: not only is there a penalty for an increased number of context switches, but also a significant amount of data is MEMCPYed from the client to a file descriptor and from the file descriptor to the server.

Maintainers

• Gentoo Base System (base-system@gentoo.org) - Type: project

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>base-system@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Gentoo Base System</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription>
In an ideal world, Assuan is irrelevant.  Assuan's primary use is to
allow a client to interact with a non-persistent server.  Using Assuan,
this is accomplished by forking a subprocess and communicating with it
via, for example, a pipe or unix domain socket.  This method is neither
elegant nor efficient especially when there is a lot of data spread
across several transactions: not only is there a penalty for an
increased number of context switches, but also a significant amount of
data is MEMCPYed from the client to a file descriptor and from the file
descriptor to the server.
	</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Error] Ebuild 3.0.1-r1 has invalid SLOT '0/$(ver_cut 1-2)'
• [Error] Ebuild 3.0.0-r1 has invalid SLOT '0/$(ver_cut 1-2)'
• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild libassuan-3.0.1-r1
• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild libassuan-3.0.0-r1
• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild libassuan-2.5.7

Files

• libassuan-3.0.0-fix-typo.patch

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