> As for the 864K vs 294K, v3 vs v2 dhcp source package sizes - 
> that would 
> sure be a material reason why it wasn't in leaf. However it's worth 
> clarifying those numbers a bit (damned lies & statistics :)
> 
> In order to discern that the existence of the "release" 
> functionality in 
> fact was not to be found in 2.0pl5, I downloaded the whole dhcp code 
> tree & history (ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp). I don't even 
> have linux box 
> to compile it on but as I had hoped it was easy enough to evaluate 
> regarding release functionality. This has also provided me the 
> opportunity to examine the actual codesize in the different 
> subdirectories (esp ./dhclient). In short, the 2.0pl5 
> ./dhclient folder 
> is 192K (.c code = 95k), the dhcp-latest's ./dhclient folder 
> is 229K (.c 
> code =121K).
> 
>     So I propose that the v3 dhclient may be of acceptable size for 
> inclusion in the leaf builds, even the floppy distributions?

Good reasoning, wrong conclusion. The dhclient executable grew more than 3-fold 
between the 2.0 and 3.0 versions. There may be additional factors, but you didn't 
consider the common directory, which includes a very large libdhcp.a.

-Richard


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