[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How about naming the packages netkit-ping and iputils-ping, >respectively? Oh, wait, we have that already... > >iputils-arping also has a more portable, alternative implementation >(cf. package arping). That leaves us with tracepath that indeed appears >to be Linux-only at the moment. But then we have a couple of traceroute >packages that offer roughly similar functionality. > >So what's all the fuzz about? Changing the default implementation. ;-)
Making one of the portable versions the default ping for Debian seems like the right thing to do. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
