[ltt-dev] UST communication library

[Yannick Brosseau]

So the 1b)  options sounds good in this area.

On 2011-06-15 11:24, David Goulet wrote:
> Exactly! Thus having a hard dependency is completely out of question.
>
> On 11-06-15 11:21 AM, Yannick Brosseau wrote:
>
> >> Enlighten me Yannick :)
> >>
> >> # apt-get install lttng-tools
> >>
> >> How are you going to have the UST support without installing the UST
> >> package
> >> (assuming that libustcomm is inside ust) ?
> >>
> >> I figure you'll have a "Not found libust.so..." at execution time ?
>
> > Exactly, for the *runtime* dependency, that would be a *recommand* and
> > we detect if libusb is present or not. But  that's really up to the
> > packager to decide how he does it. Each distro might have their own
> > policies.
>
> > As the upstream developer, you should let the user decide if he want UST
> > support or not. I might be building an embedded system were space is a
> > constraint and I would want to only  have the kernel tracer and not
> > bother with he userspace one.
>
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