In <pan.2009.07.21.10.12.53@xxxxxxx>, Duncan wrote: >It also pulls in libnl, which Gentoo defines as "a >library for applications dealing with netlink socket." I'm not exactly >sure what that is all about, but I suppose that might be a legitimate >Ethernet-only-network dependency, at least, unlike the others. Netlink sockets are used for fast, secure, bi-directional userland to kernel-space communication. They don't have much to do with networking, though I do think they were put in the kernel to make the ULOG netfilter target work well. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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