Le 08/08/16 à 11:18, Paul Wise a écrit :
TBH I don't want to use alternatives if the two tools are not using the same flags, for example, arping has two implementation in debian using alternatives (or being installed in two different paths, not sure anymore) but they are not providing the same flags/options, network-manager is using this tool but only works with one of the implementation.On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Christian Seiler wrote:Maybe the best idea would then be to have iproute2 ship the ifstat utility as iproute2-ifstat (or similar), keep ifstat as the name for the ifstat package, and if a Linux admin wants to have ifstat be the iproute2 thing, they can easily set an alias in their shell. (Maybe add instructions to a README.Debian file.)Sounds like a case for alternatives, are the two implementations command-line compatible?
FTR, other distributions (RHEL/Fedora at least) are using the iproute implementation.