Peter Tribble wrote:
> On 6/12/07, Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:
> 
>> > At least by this proposal, it seems can't even get our act together
>> > enough to nuke snoop away.
>>
>> We can't?  As long as we agree that this case shouldn't have to include
>> adding functionality to Wireshark that is currently only available in
>> snoop then I think it should be near trivial to "get our act together to
>> nuke snoop."  Or am I missing something?
> 
> Earlier Bart gave a list of dependencies for the gui, which is quite
> extensive. Also, it was indicated that all the components of wireshark
> would be delivered as a single package.
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> What external dependencies do the command line tools have? On a
> minimized system, snoop will work - will the wireshark cli utilities or
> do they need a lot of extra stuff?
> 
> If snoop is removed and replaced by some wireshark cli utility, should
> the gui and cli components be packaged separately so as to allow
> snoop functionality to be present on machines with no gui installed?
> 

I can certainly introduce a separate package for the GUI component
(Wireshark itself) if that's deemed useful.

- Bart


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