What happen to Wireshark?

[Steve Dickson]

Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Steve Dickson <SteveD at redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> tshark (the non-gui version of wireshark) should be installed by
>> default with the option installed the gui (as it was in FC6) and then
>> make tcpdump the optional install since at this point its pretty much
>> brain dead
> 
> It's perhaps because of
> 
> | $ rpm -q --qf '%{NAME} \t%{SIZE}\n' tcpdump wireshark
> | tcpdump         948021
> | wireshark       31040958
> |
> | $ rpm -qR wireshark | wc -l
> | 41
> | $ rpm -qR tcpdump | wc -l
> | 15
> 
> ?
hmm... I'm must be missing your point because
how is the size of a package determine how
useful a packages is?

The reason tcpdump is so small is because there is nothing
there... the reason its so useless when debugging modern
day network protocols...

steved.