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Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.9.4-1
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 16 16:14, Takashi Yano wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:24:28 -0600
>> Brian Inglis wrote:
>> > I removed that package from my system because it required elevated admin
>> > privileges to work, whereas Windows ping uses IcmpSendEcho API to bypass the
>> > elevated admin privilege required to access raw sockets and send an ICMP Echo
>> > request.
>>
>> ping/ping6 in inetutils also require administrator right as well.
>
> I'm pretty sure I wrote this a couple years back but I was overruled:
>
> I don't think we should package ping at all. It's just not feasible to
> install a ping which doesn't work 99% of the time but is earlier in
> $PATH than the working ping.
>
> So please let's keep ping at least in a separate package, as long as we
> don't have a ping working for non-admin accounts as well.
fine for me.
> Corinna
Regards
Marco