James Carlson wrote: > > So, what's the plan for snoop? Does it get removed eventually? > > It doesn't seem good for users to be bounced back and forth between > two different tools to do the same job. >
I respectfully disagree. Customers like choice. Linux became so popular because of how much choice the user has in tools, applications, file systems, etc. You gain more customers if you have more choices. That is why we are expanding the numbers of products we offer. On the software side, some people like xine, some prefer mplayer. Some like normal upgrade, others enjoy live upgrade. Some like ufs, some veritas, some zfs. Some like firefox, others download different browsers. If you take away all choice, you will discover over time a reduction in total customer count. I do not think the introduction of a new tool should necessitate the removal of an existing tool. I simply view it as a long overdue attempt to make the Solaris distro "more complete". > >> There are two private libraries delivered into /usr/lib. >> > > I don't see libpcap. Where does that come from? > > I see a seriously large number of libraries used by blastwave's > ethereal. Are the same ones dragged in here? If so, where are they? > If not, then is there functionality missing from the Solaris SFW > version? Any features disabled? > >
