Am 11.04.2016 um 18:31 schrieb Thomas Habets: > On 11 April 2016 at 17:16, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > >> iputils-arping is the version supported by NM upstream. >> Portability is no issue, since NM is Linux-only. >> > > To clarify what I meant: network-manager is preventing `arping` from being > installed, which means it's preventing people writing portable scripts. > > > >> Afair, there were issues with arping and iputils-arping not being fully >> command line compatible, so we couldn't use arping. >> > > Which is why I'm suggesting that network-manager should be able to aware > enough to work with either.
I don't think we want that. If arping and iputils-arping want to be interchangable arping implementations, they should find a common interface. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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