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

Joshua M. Clulow josh at sysmgr.org
Sun Oct 24 05:01:23 PDT 2010


On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Garrett D'Amore
<Garrett.D'Amore at nexenta.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> Right.  I think we want to break SUNWcs up, not add to it.

Fair enough.  Do we have guidelines on how packaging decisions should
be made?  Would you put "ping" and "traceroute" into the same package
or do they each merit their own, just as each driver is in a separate
package?

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Joshua M. Clulow
UNIX Admin/Developer
http://blog.sysmgr.org



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