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Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/28] packagegroup-base: remove openswan from packagegroup-base-ipsec
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On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 11:37 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Monday 03 September 2012 11:35:24 Phil Blundell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 11:30 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > openswan was only ever provided in unmaintained form in meta-demoapps
> > > which has been removed, so we never really provided it in OE-Core.
> > 
> > Isn't packagegroup-base-ipsec rather useless without it?
> 
> If you ignore the RRECOMMENDS line that follows, yes.

Is there a meaningful use-case where installing kernel-module-ipsec
without any user-space support is a desirable thing to do?  And, even if
the answer is yes, is it really valuable to have a
packagegroup-base-ipsec which just recommends a single other package
without doing anything else?

p.