tcpslice out of date

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2003-Oct-09 13:34:03 -0700, Michael Sierchio <kudzu at tenebras.com> wrote:
>Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>
>>There's a newer (Y2K-compliant) version in ports (net/tcpslice).  I
>>was talking with Bill Fenner (CC-ed) about the possibility of
>>importing this newer version to the base system but I think both of us
>>had too many other things to deal with.  :-p
>>
>>IMHO, we should either import a newer version to the base system or
>>kill it altogether and rely on the one in ports.
>
>There is some wisdom in not including it in the base system.  There's
>way too much stuff there,  I'm of the "it should all be packages"
>school.

I'd support this as well - at least for -CURRENT.  It's too much of
a POLA violation to remove it from -STABLE, though it would be nice
to have the installed version brought up to date.

>Is there any other set of executables that depends on libpcap?

I thought dhclient might but it doesn't seem to, so I can't think of
anything.

Peter