At 16:03 Uhr +1000 05.04.2002, Jeremy Higgs wrote: >On 4/4/02 11:07 PM, "Max Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Right now there is no support for snmp in ethereal, since I figured >> not everybody wants to have to install snmp just to get ethereal. I >> guess I could make an "ethereal-snmp" package if there is enough >> demand. >> >> >> Max > >This is slightly from left-field, but still relevant I think... What about >implementing the other form of "Splitoffs" that was proposed a while back? >Instead of having 'ethereal' and 'ethereal-snmp', for example, as separate >.info files, there would be only one 'ethereal' .info file which specified >the options, etc, for a different build of the package... This could >certainly be in handy here, but if it's possible, should probably occur >after the next distro release, and before Fink (package manager) 1.0, I >think...
YOu are talking about variants here, not splitoffs. Those are an entierly different beast, and carry a big tail of their own problems with them. Not something we want to even attempt before 0.4.0 is out. And even after that, we need some more discussion before we can work on it, I think. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
