Bug#787480: build with iptables support

[Martin Pitt]

Joey Hess [2015-06-02  0:06 -0400]:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
> > We were reluctant to link against libiptc, since that would mean a
> > dependency on iptables, which is about 4M of additional disk space which
> > even minimal systems would have to install.
> > 
> > Given the recent upstream discussions [1] to switch to nftables, we will
> > probably wait a bit, until things have settled, before turning this
> > feature on. Hope that makes sense.
> 
> Isn't libnftnl0 bigger than iptables anyway?

In a minimal sid schroot:

  # apt-get install libnftnl0
  [...]
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    libjansson4 libmnl0 libmxml1 libnftnl0
  Need to get 125 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 472 kB of additional disk space will be used.

  # apt-get install iptables
  [...]
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    iptables libnfnetlink0 libxtables10
  Need to get 358 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 3818 kB of additional disk space will be used.

So getting libiptc it's a whole magnitude bigger.

Martin

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