Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 04:06:35AM +0930, Ron wrote:
> The start of this thread is vague in my memory now, so apologies if I'm
> off target here, but I would object to any sort of enforced kernel version
> dependancy on a package.
> 
> Just because I have the 'correct' kernel version for a package installed
> is no guarantee that I am actually running it, so a dependancy doesn't
> really achieve much.
[snip]
> My view is that if a package requires a certain kernel version, then
> say so clearly in it's description.  If people choose to ignore that,
> well.. caveat emptor...

Or the program can be built either way, build both and autodetect which
one to run.

Mike Stone