Re: Compiling with or without extcap

[Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com>]

From: Wireshark-dev [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Dario Lombardo
Sent: den 4 januari 2018 15:22
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Compiling with or without extcap



On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com<mailto:anders.broman () ericsson com>> 
wrote:
I don’t have a problem with making extcap a mandatory feature of Wireshark. But since extcap prolongs the startup time 
and clutters the interface list.
I would like a feature to turn some or all extcap interfaces off. I think it’s good to have them default available to 
make it obvious they exist but none of the default ones are particularly useful to me.

> This is related to user experience, not compilation.
Sure but the only(easiest) way to “get rid of them” currently is to not compile them 😊

> Did you try to disable some interfaces group, main window, next to the filter? There is wired, wireless, USB and 
> > external interfaces. Disable the last one and you get >rid of all extcaps (display only).

I’m mostly annoyed by the startup delay.

Regards
Anders

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