Hi Noah, Boian, On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 10:32:28AM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 09:29:22PM +0300, Boian Bonev wrote: > > I would like to propose a patch with alternatives support. > > > > Before doing this there are some things to confirm: > > > > - are you willing to accept such a patch? > > It seems reasonable. I have a vague (and possibly mistaken) memory that > I looked in to doing this a number of years ago and found that it would > not be appropriate to use alternatives for these two programs. I don't > remember the reasoning and I haven't managed to find any record of this, > though. > > I'd like to determine more definitively whether my memory is accurate or > not before we proceed with this work, so please give me some time.
I have similar memory here, that due to both tools not having good interchanability, that the alternatives systems would not be appropriate here. But I have not found old records of possible discussion for that. If it is policy and best-practice conform doing so then I would not object to such a plan, speaking with my src:arping maintainer hat on. But my gut feeling here is that they cannot be drop-in replacements of each other, that we would open problems. Please do keep me in the loop for this discussion if possible (subscribed to the bug, fwiw). Regards, Salvatore
