Re: changing default ping

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de> writes:

> Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>
>> Of course.  So let's have one ping package that provides the feature
>> on systems where the headers say "yes, we have this feature."
>
> Unfortunately, exactly that is not going to happen because the iputils 
> upstream does not care about compatibility and cannot be bothered to add 
> checks because the package is meant to run on Linux only.

Even if you only want to support Linux, it's *STILL* wrong to include
the kernel headers right in the package.

Thomas