Hi folks - I'm working on integrating Wireshark into Solaris. As you may be aware, this is a network protocol analyzer, and contains both command line (ala snoop) tools and a Gnome-based GUI. During ARC review, I was asked to place the GUI in a separate package to facilitate the use of the command line tools on minimized systems - those w/o the Gnome desktop packages installed.
It turns out that the command line tools also depend on libglib and libgmodule... and both these libraries are part of the general gnome library package, SUNWgnome-base-libs. As a result, the command line tools require that the full set of graphics libs be installed, along with a rather daunting set of other dependencies including the X window system, font support, etc. Is there a chance of these libraries going into a separate package on which SUNWgnome-base-libs could depend? This would faciliate both the use of Wireshark's command line tools on minimized systems, and the eventual replacement of snoop with those tools. Thanks - - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
