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

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 01:51 +0200, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote:
> 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.
> 

More importantly, we can create "meta packages" which provide all these
little packages in one operation, so typical users don't have to be
exposed to all of them, but folks who want to minimize can.

	- Garrett