-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 15/10/15 06:57 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Mike Frysinger > <[email protected]> wrote: >> iputils is currently in @system for everyone. by default, it >> only installs `ping`. do we feel strongly enough about this to >> require all systems include it ? or should this wait for the >> long idea of releasing stage4's instead of stage3's ? > > IMO this should certainly be installed by default, but it should > also not be a part of the @system set unless portage depends on > it or something like that. > > Thus this should probably wait until we start releasing stage4s. >
So as mentioned already, there's a ping functionality provided by busybox (and busybox won't be dropped from @system any time soon, right?). So long as people know that works (which may require documentation updates), the removal of iputils will likely have very little impact. Secondly, iamben and I were discussing that the addition of a section to the Handbook, "Optional: Highly Recommended Packages and Tools" to, say, the bottom of the 'Installing system tools' chapter. A table containing package name and a quick description of its importance should do. Thirdly, is there any method that will alert users that iputils is going to be depcleaned after it's dropped from @system ?? I know we recommend people run it with --pretend, but if people aren't looking for packages being dropped from @system I can see this falling through the cracks a lot... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlYfvwUACgkQAJxUfCtlWe18eQEA7NBwxWbm5so+bTRUDNSWtY36 iEawa30vYoGvTo963GIA/1qrosPRVdxhEys5Wf2t3c6h7BWAmujd+A9sh035OoVb =Ztgc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
