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	To: distribution package maintainers

	Those are a few things about this project that you should know.

	I surely welcome patches to support both in a better way.

	DO NOT ship kronosnetd. It's an experimental piece of super
	crappy code. IF you decide to ship it anyway, you get to
	be also the upstream maintainer :-) you have been warned.

	libtap is a simple commodity library used only by kronosnetd.
	I don't mind to support it, but don't ship just for the fun of it.
	It has no users, that I know of, outside of kronosnetd.

	libknet is still under heavy development. There might be more
	onwire network changes that could make current version
	incompatible with newer versions. Make sure to warn your users
	about it. Plan is to release a stable version (1.0) when
	we are confident that the current implementation is stable enough.

	libknet has a lot of build dependencies due to its modular
	implementation. It does not, however, link with all those libraries
	but uses a dlopen model to save runtime resources and provide
	flexibility to users to install only the libraries they are
	planning to use. Make sure that you do build with all feature
	enabled (compatible with your distribution licencing/patent
	policy of course) and tune your packaging to Recommend/Suggest
	the external libraries.

	Thanks
	Your upstream maintainers