[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#820697: network-manager should support both 'arping' implementations
thomas at habets.se
thomas at habets.se
Mon Apr 11 13:49:52 UTC 2016
Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.8
network-manager depends on package `iputils-arping`, which prevents
the cross-platform `arping` package from being installed without
removing network-manager.
If network-manager supported both, then either could be installed.
`arping` runs on many platforms whereas `iputils-arping` runs only on
Linux, thus preventing portable scripting. I'm sure `iputils-arping`
has *some* benefit too, but I don't know what that would be.
Disclaimer: I'm author of `arping`.
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