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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] drop iputils from @system (i.e. ping)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:25:08
Message-Id: 561F8CF9.6050901@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] drop iputils from @system (i.e. ping) by Mike Frysinger
1 On 10/14/15 11:39 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > iputils is currently in @system for everyone. by default, it only
3 > installs `ping`. do we feel strongly enough about this to require
4 > all systems include it ? or should this wait for the long idea of
5 > releasing stage4's instead of stage3's ?
6 > -mike
7
8 i can live with this. the busybox ebuild provides ping. let's just
9 document `ln -sf /bin/busybox /bin/ping`
10
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12 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
13 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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