From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Having a seperate package for libiptc
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:56:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081024235619.GC23818@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490251B8.3090704@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:52:40AM +0200, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote:
> What do you think - Should I add this library ebuild to the tree, or
> should I just give up getting miniupnpd added to the tree, since there
> is no alternative to using libiptc?
> I already have an ebuild for it that compiles iptables, and just
> installs the headers and library files, and my local tests shows that it
> works fine here.
Unless vapier has a strong reason not to include libiptc, you should
rather just modify the main iptables ebuild to install the library
again.
Adding a separate variant of the package just for the library is a sure
way to cause missed security patches and bugfixes later on (see shades
of xpdf).
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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org
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2008-10-24 22:52 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Having a seperate package for libiptc Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2008-10-24 23:56 ` Robin H. Johnson [this message]
2008-10-25 0:50 ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
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