Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On 2015-10-14, at 23:39, Mike Frysinger <vap...@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 :-) :-)
