Hi On Monday 19 December 2011, Heiko Stübner wrote: > Am Donnerstag 15 Dezember 2011, 22:13:43 schrieb Stefan Lippers-Hollmann: > > On Thursday 15 December 2011, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Heiko Stübner wrote: [...] > > For iw (which is needed by crda's udev rules), it would be nice to > > have libnl.so.3 and libnl-genl.so.3 in /lib/ (#622247: iw binary should > > be installed in /sbin). The wpasupplicant package would also profit > > from that (#537790), although it is haunted by openssl and zlib as > > dependencies well. > > As libnl seems to be used by a lot of system-level programs, should only > these > two libs move to /lib or all?
Looking at the reverse dependencies, these packages appear to profit
from libnl3 being available from /lib/.
libnl3:
iw - tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
executed from a udev rule (shipped by crda) to set regulatory
domain
hints for mac80211 based wlan drivers
wpasupplicant - client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)
e.g. nfs mounting /usr/ over wpa/ wpa2 encrypted wlan
libnl2:
<apparently none critical>
libnl1:
crda - wireless Central Regulatory Domain Agent
udev rule to set regulatory domain hints for mac80211 based
wlan
drivers, can be switched to libnl-3 trivially (I'm going submit
an
according patch upstream and to Debian)
ipcfg - Network configuration system
ifupdown replacement (experimental only), currently located in
/usr/bin/ would need porting to libnl3
The other reverse dependencies of the various libnl variants appear not
to be required during early boot, before /usr/ gets mounted, at a first
glance.
iw, wpasupplicant (hostapd) and crda only need libnl-3.so.200 and
libnl-genl-3.so.200.
Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollman
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