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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re [RFC PATCH 1/2] iproute2: Add libnl support.
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:06:42 -0700
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> This patch links the ip utility with libnl, which must be separately
> installed. This lets new functionality use libnl to implement its
> netlink interfaces.
> 
> Package developers will need to add libnl to the iproute2 package
> dependencies.
> ---
>  Makefile |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

No. I don't want to make iproute2 dependent on libnl.
It doesn't make sense to have dependency without major need for new
functionality.  There are already netlink library routines in iproute2