Re: Bundling up alternative packages

[Warren Togami <wtogami redhat com>]

Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
> > Since libpcap is a package in Fedora Core, an "alternative version"
> > would be a replacement for the Core package and hence does not fit
> > into the definition of Fedora Extras. It would fit into the definition
> > of Fedora Alternatives [1] or any similar sub-project which may be
> > opened in the future.
>
>
> Ok thanks for the info. From that I should make the SNORT and other
> tools compiled against the normal pcap if they should be in extras.

Would that be a static link?  Just checking, because multiple packages 
typically need to be updated every time there is a libpcap security 
issue. =(

Warren