On 5/4/02 6:45 PM, "Max Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Yep, that's right! Sorry bout that... Yeah, it's pretty big, not something before 0.4.0, but probably should be considered in the near future. _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
