[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#292266: snmpd depends on libsensors3

[Jonathan Nieder]

Joosep-Georg Järvemaa wrote:
> 2011/9/20 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>:

>> Why?  Is it because of file size, the particular version number,
>> or something else?
>
> You expect me to remember that after 6 years and 8 months?
>
> I could just guess now that it was because snmpd did not actually
> require libsensors to be present in order to run and the box I was
> setting up did not have any sensors neither.
>
> But really I do not remember.

Heh.  I remember most things about bugs I filed 6 years ago, but it's
true, I don't expect that of other people.  Looking at the changelog,
I see in libsensors2 days it used to drag in a kernel module (and
hence a newish kernel) --- maybe something like that was it.

It does seem like it should be possible to make the lmSensors MIB
optional, for example by using dlopen, if someone is interested (in
which case this bug should be reopened).

Thanks for explaining.
Jonathan