Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] drop iputils from @system (i.e. ping)

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Andrew Udvare wrote:
>> On 2015-10-14, at 23:39, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> iputils is currently in @system for everyone.  by default, it only
>> installs `ping`.  do we feel strongly enough about this to require
>> all systems include it ?  or should this wait for the long idea of
>> releasing stage4's instead of stage3's ?
>> -mike
> If I had got on a machine lacking the ping command, I would immediately install it and otherwise avoid that machine (it's 'broken'). It really should not get removed, plus it is tiny.
>
> A lot of hosts now block ICMP requests but it's just habit for many to type `ping google.com` or similar to test when they suspect their internet is down.
>
> Andrew
>


+1

I do this all the time myself. 

Dale

:-)  :-)