> When it comes to "is FOO widely used", then yes, that is a > technical reasoning. We will not depend on some non-standard > library for core functionality that is not included atleast by > default on most GNU/Linux systems.
Network manager is a default install on at least Ubuntu and Fedora. It is certainly widely used. I wouldn't know, it is a GUI tool. libnl on ther other hand is not standard from what I can see. So far, rishi has only a list of two or three programs that use it (networkmanager, iw), iproute2 which is common does not use it either according to rishi. If we can include libnl in inetutils, then that would be satisfactory even if libnl is not standard, or widley used.
