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

[Rich Reynolds]

On 10/24/10 06:01 AM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote:
> 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?
>

from a historic perspective(small, fast, light) they were frequently 
used together to solve problems, but as the have been substantially 
'enhanced' over the years, there is soooo much functional overlap we are 
closing in on the questioning the need for both.

rich