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

Joshua M. Clulow josh at sysmgr.org
Sat Oct 23 23:29:34 PDT 2010


On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Andre van Eyssen <andre at purplecow.org> wrote:
> Sounds mostly good to me. Although is the FTP client exciting enough that it
> needs a seperate package? Can it all go into SUNWcs?

Packages are cheap and I think they should be as small and cohesive as
possible - like functions.  I only suggest SUNWcs because it's an easy
place to stick ping alongside traceroute and because it will hopefully
itself be broken up later.

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Joshua M. Clulow
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