Re: Dropping support for libnl1 and libnl2?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 13:57 -0600, Robby Workman wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:11:49 -0600
> Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> 
> > All the major distros appear to have been shipping libnl3.x for quite
> > a while already, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to support
> > libnl1.x and 2.x with some of the newer features that are being added
> > to NM like bridging, bonding, vlan, etc.
> > 
> > So, given that libnl 3.2.7 has been out for almost a year
> > (2012-01-20), and most major distros are packaging it (Ubuntu,
> > OpenSUSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch), would anyone object to libnl
> > >= 3.2.7 as a build requirement for the next release of
> > >NetworkManager?
> 
> 
> We've got 3.2.11 in the last stable Slackware, so sure, that's fine
> with us, even if we're not "major" enough to warrant concern ;-)

Aww, not true.  Thanks for the update; by "major" I really mean those
that don't have derivatives.  eg Mint would be a derivative distro, but
Slackware would be a major one.

Dan