On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:51:43PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > and build process is a mess. The upstream developer is one of the > > kernel network stack maintainers, and he wants the iputils package to > > always work with the latest and greatest kernel functionality. As a > > result, he includes lots of kernel headers in his programs rather than > > using standard headers from /usr/include. > So what? There is nothing wrong with this.
Tell that to the hurd or kFreeBSD people. > > At one point I fixed the tracepath code so it would build using standard > > headers. > I'd say you *broke* the code. By making it no longer Linux specific? By making it use POSIX datatypes? How does that follow? (Actually, I think the tracepath packages may in fact be Linux-specific; ping and traceroute6 certainly shouldn't be.) > > second opinion... > It's not obvious which problem you are trying to solve. Bugs like 163254 and 285420. noah
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