[pkg-wpa-devel] Proposal: Split the package

[Kel Modderman]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> I think this split causes unnecessary bloat of the debian dependency
> tree, and I'm quite sure that this would be rejected by our ftp-masters.
> Whats the point of packaging /etc/wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh in a binary
> package of its own? I mean it isn't enabled by default anyway.
>   

Yep, exactly.
> Anyway, you are suggesting something which I suggested in another form
> already on this list: Package a real roaming daemon/solution, which can control 
> ifupdown, wpasupplicant and perhaps ifplugdown.
>
> How about a new package, lets call it wireless-roaming-daemon, which
> depends on wpasupplicant, guessnet and perhaps ifplugd, which installs
> an init script and provides an easy to use interface to the user to
> configure his locations? It would then start wpasupplicant and control
> ifupdown just as before. (we can still decide if this solution should go
> into the wpasupplicant source and/or binary package or into a source
> package of its own). 
>
> The initscript itself isn't a roaming solution at all. You can easily
> install it yourself, and compared with the efford you have to take in
> integrating it with ifplugd and guessnet, this is the easiest task. So
> IMO, you are complaining at the wrong place.
>   

Strongly agreed, this sort of functionality is outside of what this 
package should provide, IMHO. I hope the people who depend on this sort 
of functionality direct their efforts into developing such a solution.

Thanks, Kel.