[Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#736758: Bug#736758: strongswan is just too bloated

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

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On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 07:03:42PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Source: strongswan
> Version: 5.1.0-3~bpo70+1
> Severity: normal
> 
> This is going to be not a trivial bugreport.
> 
> The subject says it: strongswan is just too bloated.
> Default install does (or tries to do) so many things which aren't
> necessary on most of setups, it is just insane.  For example, it
> tries to iteract with dhcp, it opens raw sockets for ARP, it
> explicitly loads 2 crypto libraries (openssl and gcrypt) using
> plugins, and so on.

Actually, we're indeed considering splitting the strongswan package to
have a small default install, fitting common setup, and a larger plugin
package.

Regards.
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Yves-Alexis Perez
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