[OpenSER-Devel] two questions

[Dan Pascu]

On Monday 15 October 2007, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Dan Pascu wrote:
> > 1. Is there a reason why radius accounting support is not enabled by
> > default when compiling openser?
>
> because by default are compiled only modules with no dependencies of
> extra libs.
>
> > 2. Why isn't radius accounting enabled in the debian package?
>
> Same reason as above - we need to work out a way to provide both acc
> without RAD and acc with RAD without conflicting the packages....

While I can understand your reason at point 1 in the context of building 
and installing openser from source, I do not see the argument in this 
second case. The debian packaging system has exactly this purpose: to 
provide a way to install software resolving all its dependencies. It 
already build-depends on libradiusclient-ng and has libradiusclient-ng as 
a runtime dependency as well. While I can understand the wish to have all 
the radius functionality separated into the extra openser-radius-modules, 
the fact that for a while openser itself will depend on libradiusclient 
is superfluous when compared with the lack of certain features from the 
official package. This lack of certain features makes any serious use of 
openser impossible without having to resort to customized rebuilds of the 
debian package.

-- 
Dan