Bug#787480: build with iptables support

Dimitri John Ledkov xnox at debian.org
Thu Jul 23 15:47:02 BST 2015


On 23 July 2015 at 12:32, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Am 23.07.2015 um 13:21 schrieb Dimitri John Ledkov:
>> If we in-vision that networkd is / will-be required on minimal
>> systems, I would want to have an alternative build available of
>> networkd & nspawn with firewall support enabled. (could be something
>> like update-alternatives, or e.g. systemd-networkd-firewall.service
>> that conflicts with normal networkd units or whatever.)
>
> I think it would be highly confusing to have two builds of
> systemd-networkd with different feature sets and bringing
> update-alternatives into the mix wouldn't help. So I'm not sure we want
> this.
>

So split networkd into stand-alone package, and enable iptables-dev
dependency. It's not enabled by default service, is it? Thus should
not be installed together with init, given the deps it wants / pulls
in. And from the bug reports there is clearly demand for full
functionality to be available from networkd. Looks like win-win,
minimal install is kept minimal, yet optional component is fully
featured.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.




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