wpcap: Load libpcap dynamically

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 08/26/2014 12:47 PM, Sebastian Lackner wrote:
> Linking it dynamically has a great advantage for distributions and
> package maintainers providing precompiled wine builds. I would also
> like to provide my wine builds with wpcap support (some users might
> want to use it) - but when I do that a fixed dependency is
> required. This is especially confusing when wine is only used as a
> dependency, like in case of pipelight, where users are already
> wondering why we now depend on libpcap (those are wine builds where
> it was already enabled):
> https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/253591
> 
> I guess other package maintainers might probably think the same,
> but most haven't updated to 1.7.25 yet, and are not aware of this
> problem. Just converting the static dependency to a dynamic
> dependency would be the easiest approach to solve this - the
> alternative would be to split wine into (more) packages, and avoid
> the libpcap dependency on the main one... or just leave this
> feature exclusively for source-based distros where users have
> fine-grained control about which features they want. :/
Fedora has subpackages for all those components requiring extra
dependencies. In this case I guess they will go for a wine-pcap rpm.
Installing the wine package will pull everything in. But the people
that do care about the dependencies they have the granularity required.

bye
	michael

> Am 26.08.2014 um 11:55 schrieb Alexandre Julliard:
>> André Hentschel <nerv at dawncrow.de> writes:
>> 
>>> This is intended for packagers, without this patch libpcap
>>> easily becomes a fixed dependency of wine. Something we don't
>>> want i guess.
>> 
>> It's only used for wpcap, which can't work without it anyway, so
>> I don't see any need to make it dynamic.