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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] inetutils: new package
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:40:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141030094018.GH1759@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABbD_XB2q_Vqn0cyJgHjeCPtLUrbC=rt7=VxLJhNwkX819Lu_A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi K?roly,

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:37:49AM +0100, K?roly Kasza wrote:
> indeed there are many programs in inetutils, that are also provided by
> other packages.
> I decided to split the package into 6 separate parts, so "one does not
> simply" need to compile/carry everything :)
> Inetutils is the GNU implementation of these, the user can choose whatever
> fits best for him/her.

But you should consider what happens when one selects both versions. Which one 
should "win"? We can't leave it to chance.

baruch

> My primary reason for adding Inetutils is telnet (and telnetd), which are
> not provided by anything else, if
> the user chooses not to use Busybox.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr>
> wrote:
> 
> > ----- Mail original -----
> > > GNU Inetutils is a collection of common network programs.
> > > Clients included:
> > > dnsdomainname, ftp, hostname, ifconfig, logger, ping, ping6, rcp,
> > > rexec, rlogin, rsh, talk, telnet, tftp, traceroute, whois
> >
> > ifconfig and hostname are already in the package "net-tools" are they
> > related ? is that a different provider for the package ?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-30  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-29 23:07 [Buildroot] [PATCH] inetutils: new package Karoly Kasza
2014-10-30  7:53 ` Jeremy Rosen
2014-10-30  9:37   ` Károly Kasza
2014-10-30  9:40     ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2014-10-30  9:50       ` Károly Kasza
2014-10-30 12:58         ` Baruch Siach
2014-10-31  9:29           ` Károly Kasza
2014-11-01 18:33             ` Károly Kasza
2014-11-01 19:01               ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-01 19:07                 ` Károly Kasza
2014-11-01 20:31                   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-02 12:45                     ` Károly Kasza
2014-11-10 15:16                       ` Károly Kasza
2014-11-10 18:44                       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-10 21:46                         ` Károly Kasza

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