[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [idea] global link database for all packages

[Loui Chang]

On Wed 01 Jul 2009 14:32 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Allan McRae schrieb:
> >>>For example:
> >>>http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/i686/core.badfhs.txt
> >>
> >>Where does that come from? It's not in any package I know of.
> >>
> >
> >rp-pppoe-3.10-1/files:etc/ppp/plugins/rp-pppoe.so
> 
> That is stupid. ppp plugins are supposed to be in
> /usr/lib/pppd/$VERSION and the ppp package already contains the
> rp-pppoe plugin. Why does rp-pppoe install it again? Why do we even
> need rp-pppoe?

Hahha.
Maybe because of this:

http://www.samba.org/ppp/features.html
> Some features of ppp include
>
>     * works sometimes

`man rp-pppoe`
> My design goals for this PPPoE client were as follows, in descending
> order of importance:
>
> o      It must work.

There's no documentation about pppoe in ppp either.
rp-pppoe helps me make my ADSL connection easily.