[illumos-Developer] Moving /usr/sbin/ping out of pkg:/network/ftp

[Samuel Younge]

Breaking out ftp makes sense.
However, I cannot imagine working on a system that has tcp/ip, but 
does not have a ping command.
If you break out ping, I guess breaking out `arp` would be next.

It seems comparable to having a Bash shell package that does not 
include `cd`, `ls`, or `rm`.
Some concepts/tools just go together and it is puzzling to think of 
them otherwise.

>
> --- Original message ---
> Subject: Re: [illumos-Developer] Moving /usr/sbin/ping out of 
> pkg:/network/ftp
> From: Aram Hăvărneanu <aram.h at mgk.ro>
> To: Samuel Younge <samuel.younge at 31415.org>
> Cc: Albert Lee <trisk at opensolaris.org>, illumos-dev 
> <developer at lists.illumos.org>
> Date: Friday, 12/11/2010  1:52 PM
>
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Samuel Younge 
> <samuel.younge at 31415.org> wrote:
>>
>> It think having a separate package for every tcp/ip tool is a bit of 
>> an overkill and inconvenient to install.
>
> Packages are cheap, also, ping, traceroute and ftp are likely to be
> installed on a distribution by default for most people. This change
> would allow certain distributors to create `minimized' distributions.
>
> --
> Aram Hăvărneanu

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