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* Graham Wilson [Tue, Oct 17 2006, 11:18:37PM]:
> Package: vpnc
> Version: 0.3.3+SVN20051028-3
> Severity: normal
>
> vpnc does not need to depend on iproute since it is not needed for
> normal operation. I know it's used in the vpnc-script, but I've
> rewritten mine entirely to only use ifconfig and route, and it doesn't
> seem like I should have to keep iproute installed for that.
> I'm not sure what the proper balance is, since if iproute was a
> recommends or suggests, people would probably complain that vpnc does
> not work. Perhaps the vpnc-script could be rewritten to use net-tools?
The normal operation is using the default configuration and the default
setup script which uses the ip command. Sure, it could be rewritten
using net-tools commands, but "ip" makes some things a lot easier, and I
have the impression that iproute will be installed on many systems
anyway.
Cc'ing to iproute maintainer. I hope that the size of that package will
be reduced in the near future, eg. by splitting up the docs part, which
would bring it down from ~1MiB to ~270KiB (compressed .deb size).
Eduard.
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