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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 20:01:25 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] inetutils: new package
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Dear K?roly Kasza,

On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 19:33:16 +0100, K?roly Kasza wrote:

> I investigated the matter further.
> Looks like inetutils won't overwrite ifconfig or ping, because of a simple
> reason: it installs the binaries elsewhere.
> In these cases, both binaries will be present, and the $PATH will choose
> which to call.

This is not great. We don't really like having two variants of the same
tool in the filesystem.

Thomas
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