On 21 August 2015 at 18:35, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Richard Melville wrote: > >> On 21 August 2015 at 16:43, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Richard Melville wrote: >> >> Is there any reason why we use ping from inetutils rather than the >> version from iputils. I realise that we don't install iputils, >> but why? >> >> >> Why not? There is no need to change. >> >> >> Even though most of inetutils is useless by way of insecurity? >> > > What is insecure about the portions of the package we install? > Besides, iputils does not install ifconfig, ftp, or telnet which can be > used in a base LFS system. > It was ftp and telnet that I was thinking of, along with rcp, rexec, rlogin, rsh and tftp. Surely, ifconfig has been marked as deprecated for some time and replaced with iproute2. Richard
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