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

[Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>]

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.

   -- Bruce