From: Andrew Udvare <audvare@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] drop iputils from @system (i.e. ping)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 23:57:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B98106B7-1BAA-47E6-B9B4-5BDDE6233C45@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151015033955.GJ4446@vapier.lan>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-15 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-15 3:39 [gentoo-dev] [rfc] drop iputils from @system (i.e. ping) Mike Frysinger
2015-10-15 3:57 ` Andrew Udvare [this message]
2015-10-15 9:06 ` Dale
2015-10-15 8:08 ` Tobias Klausmann
2015-10-15 8:13 ` Alexis Ballier
2015-10-15 11:34 ` Anthony G. Basile
2015-10-15 11:33 ` Anthony G. Basile
2015-10-15 8:26 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2015-10-15 10:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rich Freeman
2015-10-15 14:58 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2015-10-15 11:24 ` Anthony G. Basile
2015-10-15 13:26 ` Michael Orlitzky
2015-10-15 14:00 ` hasufell
2015-10-15 15:13 ` Mike Frysinger
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