Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:33:47AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > > > Making one of the portable versions the default ping for Debian seems > > > > > like the > > > > > right thing to do. > > > > Please explain why. > > > Consistancy. > > Losing important features to be consistent with unrel

Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Oct-05, 09:42 (CDT), Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 23, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Oct 23, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Making one of the portable versions the default ping

Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 23, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Oct 23, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Making one of the portable versions the default ping for Debian seems > > > like the > > > right thing to do. > > Please explain w

Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Oct 23, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Making one of the portable versions the default ping for Debian seems like > > the > > right thing to do. > Please explain why. Consistancy. The alternatives system could be used if someone

Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 23, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Making one of the portable versions the default ping for Debian seems like > the > right thing to do. Please explain why. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[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