Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] external plugin and exported symbols

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From: "Andreas Sikkema" <andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 11:11:16 +0100
> > No, don't include them into the Ethereal sources. It's the 
> same as with
> > lua - I don't need several copies of the same lib on my 
> system. If we
> > really only use a small subset then yes, we might include only that
> > subset, but otherwise please use separate libs.
> 
> Why not use them *only* on those systems where we don't find a proper 
> GNU TLS or libgcrypt installed? This should keep everyone happy, 
> shouldn't it?

And after the user installs another application that requires gnutls 
and installs that we're back at Joerg's problem. I wouldn't go into 
adding 3rdparty sources of considerable size into the tarball. It 
just a maintenance nightmare for both users and developers.

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