[Bug 231746] Review Request: ettercap - Network traffic sniffer/analyser

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Summary: Review Request: ettercap - Network traffic sniffer/analyser


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231746





------- Additional Comments From wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro  2007-03-12 10:20 EST -------
As far as I know (by all means, please do correct me if I am wrong), there are
two options. I'll presume we use ettercap-tui as name of the text-only rpm,
ettercap-gui for the full GUI version and "ettercap" for the capability
provided; also the names of installed binaries are just for the sake of the
theory (on purpose using different names than the package in order to avoid
confusion)
a)
- ettercap-tui installes the binary as tettercap, ettercap-gtk installs it's
binary as gettercap
- both packages provide "ettercap"
- symlinks are treated by the alternatives system, so that which ever of the
packages is installed last will win (symlink-wise)
yum install ettercap will only install the -gtk version (shorter name)
Advantages:
- if someone wants to explicitely have any or both versions, there is no problem;
- both packages can be updated at will, as needed
Disadvantages:
- the presence of the text-only version is redundant if the full version exists. 
- require on alternatives
b)
- ettercap-tui installes the binary as tettercap, ettercap-gtk installs it's
binary as gettercap
- both provide "ettercap"
- ettercap-gtk obsoletes ettercap-tui
Advantage
- only one of the packages will be installed at a given time
Disadvantage
- unless special care is taken (yum --exclude ettercap-tui), a yum
update/upgrade will attempt to replace the text-only version with the GUI


In both cases "ettercap" could be the name of one of the packages.

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