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From: "Kristof Provost" <kp@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: libifconfig non-private in 13?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 21:02:00 +0100
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Hi,

Libifconfig was marked as private (and experimental) back in 2016.
It’s since made some strides and has grown a few users. Ifconfig now 
depends on it as well.

While it’s far from finished it’d be more useful for some users if 
it were public. That would at least imply some level of API/ABI 
stability, which is why I’m bringing it up here before pulling the 
trigger.

Does anyone see any reasons to not do this?

Regards,
Kristof