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bug#47685: Feature Request: Install fping by default


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: bug#47685: Feature Request: Install fping by default
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 19:53:11 +0200

Hi!

bo0od writes:
Its better to know when you configure guix network using manual
installation if things went well or not, the easiest way to do that is ping x.org.

It might be the most common, but note that it's not a reliable way.

Plenty of people are confused that ping doesn't work in their VM with QEMU user networking, and think this means they can't access the Web to download packages. So they don't even try even though it works fine.

But fping package is not installed by default within guix
iso, Hope to see it added by default.

I looked up ‘fping’ and it's an obscure ping variant. It may be your favourite obscure variant ;-) but it's definitely not something that should be installed by default.

‘ping’ is provided by ‘inetutils’. It's already part of %base-packages. It is installed by default. Below you talk about the installer ISO, but it already has ‘ping’ preinstalled, so I'm confused.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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