[2012-06-12 09:31:32 -0400] Stéphane Gaudreault: > I got this feature request: > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28877 > > As the new traceroute does not seems to depend on anything in iputils, I > think that it would be better to provide it in a new, independant > package. I do not see why this should be in [core], so I propose to put > it into [extra] and install everything under /usr.
Well ping and traceroute are canonical tools to test connectivity; that makes them quite valuable in [core], to my humble opinion. It is also helpful to have them bundled in a single package. Are there clear-cut advantages that the new traceroute would offer over the iputils' one? Cheers. -- Gaetan
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