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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ULOGD2 PATCH 2/3] Make NFLOG and NFCT build conditionnal
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:02:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48CA4C37.5000306@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080912065322.GD20985@ice-age>

Eric Leblond wrote:
> But, my point was not really intendend to address legacy systems. I just
> want to have something clean for people who for example want only to use NFLOG.
> That will be stupid for them to compile and install libnetfilter_conntrack
> on their system and not to use it.

Think about iptables. It has tons of matches/targets but most people 
uses very few of them. And most users use generic distro-based packaged 
versions.

Well, I'll be fine with adding an option like "--without-thing" to skip 
the compilation of NFCT, but I will not rely upon suppositions like "you 
did not installed this library, therefore I will not compile this"

-- 
"Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-12 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-11 20:48 [ULOGD2 PATCH 2/3] Make NFLOG and NFCT build conditionnal Eric Leblond
2008-09-11 21:56 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-09-11 22:15   ` Eric Leblond
2008-09-11 22:35     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-09-12  6:53       ` Eric Leblond
2008-09-12 11:02         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2008-09-13 11:13           ` [ULOGD2 PATCH] Add flags to disable NFLOG or NFCT at configure time Eric Leblond
2008-09-12  2:39     ` [ULOGD2 PATCH 2/3] Make NFLOG and NFCT build conditionnal Jan Engelhardt

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