On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:43:47PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I could not care less about hurd or kFreeBSD, sorry. Of course: Debian must be optimized for your case, and your case only. > But I care a lot about having a working and up to date iputils package > for my Linux systems, and I do not want Debian to fork it unless there > is a very good reason. Supporting a toy unreleased OS is not one. In my experience, and with the latest trends taken by linux kernel developers, the latest linux version IS a toy unreleased OS. > If the iputils package is too much Linux-specific maybe the hurd or > kFreeBSD people should use different implementations for their systems. So. Would it be possible to install a 'generic' ping by default, then to provide 'optimized' pings for whatever kernels, and have the kernel image packages suggest the optimized versions? Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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