Re: Bug#88307: Netbase needs to not depend on not-necessarily-needed packages.
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:06:43 -0500, xsdg <xsdg@softhome.net> wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 03:55:07PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> This way, netbase could check whether a 2.0, 2.2, or
>> 2.4 kernel is installed and then decide whether to pull ipfwadm,
>> ipchains or iptables. No need to have all three of them installed.
>What happens if someone is using the ipchains (or ipfwadm *shudder*) "compatibility mode" in 2.4.x?
netbase would have to pull in all three for a 2.4 kernel or leave the
task to install ipfwadm or ipchains to the user.
Greetings
Marc
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