Should we make Posix Capabilities "required" ?

[Leif Hedstrom]

On platforms that provides this feature, should we make it mandatory for 
v3.2 ("trunk")? I think it'd simplify things, and avoid bug reports / 
problems related to it. Granted, we still have to clean up our code mess 
here (with duplicated code in 2-3 places), but keeping libcap optional 
has little to gain I think (it's available pretty much on any reasonably 
modern Linux, including old distros such as Fedora Core 7).

This would require libcap and libcap-devel (or libcap-dev) on Linux 
platforms at least.

Thoughts?

-- Leif