Re: [PATCH 0/1] MR5431: wpcap: Load libpcap dynamically.

[Nikolay Sivov (＠nsivov)]

On Tue Apr  2 11:07:06 2024 +0000, Hans Leidekker wrote:
> I would argue that cryp32 is useful without libgnutls; it's used for one
> rarely used feature. There can be other reasons to load libraries
> dynamically but in case of wpcap I don't see any.
> What problem does this patch solve?

There is a thread from 2014 https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2014-August/105084.html. I think it was meant to address some packaging problems that were address by then-maintainer of ubuntu packages. There are also points mentioned there it's an unnecessary complication in case of wpcap which can't be used without system counterpart library, and which is not a windows component to begin with.