Re: [PATCH] agetty: Reprompt once the network addresses change if address displayed

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On 07 Jul 2015 09:56, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > the whole point of libmnl is to provide a clean userspace library API that is
> > completely standalone & minimal (it's in the name) so people don't have to
> > learn the low level netlink APIs nor have to include linux/ headers directly
> > (which often lead to clashes with the C libraries).  libmnl itself is <20KiB,
> > so i don't buy the bloat argument.
> >
> > even then, if we do use libmnl in util-linux, it'd have configure checks so that
> > if the system doesn't have it, it'd be disabled automatically.  i'm surprised
> > you're complaining about libmnl but not the other large external libs that
> > util-linux utilizes.
> >
> > another point of information: the latest iproute2 now requires libmnl, so that
> > ship has already sailed.
> 
> Yes, you're right.  We do disable tipc in iproute2 for the same reason 
> as we are discussing here.  That's not a function that many of our users 
> would need.  If libmnl is added to util-linux, then we'll deal with it.

at some point i think it's going to be inevitable.  my (bystander) view is that 
they'll be moving to use it more.
-mike

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