On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 03:12:44PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I also keep hearing complaints about not having ping in the installer > for checking network connectivity when things aren't working. :) > But that would add a whole bunch of bytes to the installer size.
Yeah, count me in. And no, wget is not a sane replacement to check if there's connectivity. On the other hand we added a bloated wpa supplicant with crypto libs without any effort to get it trimmed (yet), so those few bytes for ping shouldn't really matter IMO.[1] Kind regards, Philipp Kern [1] And yeah, I'm aware that it all adds up. Still, knowing that my gateway is actually reachable and it's just HTTP that's broken, is a massive help in a bunch of cases. -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:p...@0x539.de Wanna-Build Admin `- finger pkern/k...@db.debian.org
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