From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: [ULOGD2 PATCH 2/3] Make NFLOG and NFCT build conditionnal Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:02:15 +0200 Message-ID: <48CA4C37.5000306@netfilter.org> References: <1221166085-23435-3-git-send-email-eric@inl.fr> <48C99429.2020406@netfilter.org> <20080911221504.GC20985@ice-age> <48C99D1E.3010506@netfilter.org> <20080912065322.GD20985@ice-age> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Leblond Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:51901 "EHLO us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752083AbYILLhU (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:37:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080912065322.GD20985@ice-age> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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