From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 18:40:51 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] lpppd: new package In-Reply-To: <20170102223824.28266-1-Stefan.Nickl@gmail.com> References: <20170102223824.28266-1-Stefan.Nickl@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20170401184051.7f6c1252@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Stefan, On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 23:38:24 +0100, stefan.nickl at gmail.com wrote: > From: Stefan Nickl > > After the official github repository for PPP has not seen > any activity for a long time, I've created a fork that > tries to do some modernization and shed some legacy. > For more info, please see https://github.com/snickl/lpppd > > It is inteded as a drop-in replacement for the original PPP, > therefore I've marked it as conflicting with the existing pppd > package. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Nickl I do appreciate your interest in making the pppd development active again. However, at this point, I don't see what is the benefit of using lpppd over pppd, and having two separate packages is a bit annoying. Therefore, I would prefer to wait for lpppd to gain some traction before packaging it in Buildroot. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com