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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Compiling with or without extcap

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 17:45:52 -0800
On Jan 7, 2018, at 3:19 PM, Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We had this discussion a bung of times. I have nothing against having a preference, but I am very much against making not-loading extcap the default. New users should not face a hassle to enable a capture interface, but existing users, who wish to improve the performance in any way, can profit from an option doing exactly that.
> 
> So +1 on making this option available

+1

> big -1 on making it default to not-loading

+1 on the -1 :-)