Bundling up alternative packages

[Warren Togami]

Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
>>
>>Since libpcap is a package in Fedora Core, an "alternative version"
>>would be a replacement for the Core package and hence does not fit
>>into the definition of Fedora Extras. It would fit into the definition
>>of Fedora Alternatives [1] or any similar sub-project which may be
>>opened in the future.
>>
> 
> 
> Ok thanks for the info. From that I should make the SNORT and other
> tools compiled against the normal pcap if they should be in extras.
> 
> 

Would that be a static link?  Just checking, because multiple packages 
typically need to be updated every time there is a libpcap security 
issue. =(

Warren