netifaces2 is highly non-portable

[ptribble]

As of Glances 4.3.1, the netifaces dependency has been replaced by netifaces2. Unfortunately, there are a number of problems with netifaces2:

• It requires rust to build, which is a blocker on less common platforms that don't have rust available (such as some SPARC systems)
• netifaces2 isn't portable, and fails to build on illumos for example; the code in netifaces2 is highly platform-specific (even if it built, it might not work)

As a result, on Tribblix (an illumos distribution) I've rolled back to Glances 4.3.0.8.

From my experience, the original netifaces might be old but it has the great advantage of actually building and working correctly, I would recommend rolling back the dependency.

[nicolargo]

Hi @ptribble, thanks for the report.

netifaces (but also netifaces-plus) compilation fail with GCC >14 and are not compliant with modern operating system (ex: Alpine 3.21 or higher).

I understand the problems with netifaces2 but it is the only maintain alternative for the moment.

If you know other alternative i am open !

Nicolas