On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 10:26:21PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello Maintainers ! > > Brent Fulgham and Martin Schulze suggested to make a debian security > package that contains fakebo, snort[1], tcpdump, sniffit etc. > Conaining means either the packages as IIRC in the net-base package or > just making a virtual package that has dependencies to all security > related package. > > Up to now the pros: > + you dont miss a programm > and the contras: > - another "virtual" package although it are only four/five packages > - people only see that there is no sniffit any longer and do not find it > are in balance for me.
I think that a meta-package depending on these tools would be useful. I don't think there is an advantage in combining the source packages -- as you said it hides the individual packages like sniffit. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
